[RESOLVED] Embedding font --> invalid data?

[Kid Charlie]

I have no idea what is going on here. Any one else having similar issues?

Embed(source="/Library/fonts/SwissBTExtCom.ttf", fontName="Swiss 911", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

This throws:

Error: Error #2136: The SWF file contains invalid data.

I can't find anything about this anywhere... Thanks for the help.

[cancerinform]

Just for clarification, do you have the line between <mx:Script> tags?
Have you tried this: source="SwissBTExtCom.ttf"?

[Kid Charlie]

Thanks for the response CancerInform, This is actually just outside a class in a class/Package file. The class is being called from inside the mx:script tags.

I did put the font in the local directory and no luck there either. (FYI: it needs to be source="/SwissBTExtCom.ttf", for some reason). I am really stuck here. Any other suggestions?

[cancerinform]

You can try this and create a style script:

PHP Code:

<mx:Style>
        @font-face
        {
            src:url("/Users/username/Library/Fonts/myfont.ttf");
            fontFamily:myFont;
        }
    </mx:Style>


[Kid Charlie]

Thanks for the help CancerInform. That method did work but I needed to use TextFormat instead of HTML or css text.

I finally figured out what was going on. For each font you need to create a private class under to load. So for my example above:

		[Embed(source="/SwissBTExtCom.ttf", fontFamily="Swiss911", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]
		private var Swiss911:Class;

This was an error with ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook. That is annoying. Spend $50 and still need to find the answers on the Web.

Hope no one else wastes their time on this. Don't forget t(:TextField).embedFonts = true;

[cancerinform]

I knew that but I thought you had done that, because the rest of your script was correct.

[Kid Charlie]

You would have thought. But hey thanks for the help. Problem solved now.