A Confused Head's Font Embedding Question

[kamilxyz]

-what is font embedding ?

-if the font not installed to control panel\fonts can it be embed ?

-for example a pixel font, embedding means is importing all chars (a-z 0-9 !-? etc.) into swf or only special language chars like chinise ?

-if i import a font to the library can i use all chars with xml without problem (a-z 0-9 !-? etc.) ?

-is embedding is necessary ?

-is only importing a font enough ?

−<font>
<h k="A" c="252#288#288#252"/>
<h k="B" c="508#292#292#216"/>
<h k="C" c="248#260#260#260"/>
<font>

what is it ? a font converted to xml ?

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they are my questions, i am so confused about font embedding. i just want to use a pixel font into my flash and if i change the text due xml, the text which is in flash wont broken.

sorry for my english and newbie question and pls answer thx

[MyFriendIsATaco]

You are severely overcomplicating this dude!

Put a textfield on the stage. Set it's type to Dynamic or Input depending on what you want.

Then in the Properties palette, click Embed. It will bring up a dialog that asks you what ranges you want to select. For what I usually use, all caps, lowercase, numerals, and punctuation are plenty. You are free to select all characters or any other ranges you want, just remember, the more characters you embed, the larger your file size of the finished swf will be.

That's it.

Also, to answer your question, yes, font embedding is necessary for numerous reasons.