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USING FLEX 4
Fonts
Change the Button control’s typeface to be non-bold. The Spark Button (in the s namespace) control’s label renders
with the embedded font because it does not require a bold faced font
.For information on embedding bold typefaces, see “Using multiple typefaces” on page 15.
You can also apply the embedded font inline by specifying the alias as the value of the control’s fontFamily property,
as the following example shows:
Resolved code-reference.
@font-face {
src:url("../assets/MyriadWebPro.ttf");
fontFamily: myFontFamily;
advancedAntiAliasing: true;
}
The text in the RichText control is Myriad Web Pro.
Locating embedded fonts
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The src property in the @font-face declaration specifies the location of the font family. You use the src property to
embed a TrueType or OpenType font by location by specifying a valid URI to the font. The URI can be relative (for
example, ../fontfolder/akbar.ttf) or absolute (for example, c:/myfonts/akbar.ttf). The URI can also point to a SWF file
that has embedded fonts within it.
You must specify the url of the src property in the @font-face declaration. All other properties are optional.
Do not mix embedded and nonembedded fonts in the same fontFamily property.
Embedding fonts in ActionScript
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You can embed TrueType or OTF font files or system fonts by location or by name by using the [Embed] metadata tag
in ActionScript. To embed a font by location, you use the source property in the [Embed] metadata tag. To embed a
font by name, you use the systemFont property in the [Embed] metadata tag.
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