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private var font2:Class;
USING FLEX 4
Fonts
You use the value of the fontName property that you set in the [Embed] tag as the alias (fontFamily) in your style
definition.
To embed a font with a different typeface (such as bold or italic), you specify the fontWeight or fontStyle properties
in the [Embed] statement and in the style definition. For more information on embedding different typefaces, see
“Using multiple typefaces” on page 15.
You can specify a subset of the font’s character range by specifying the unicodeRange parameter in the [Embed]
metadata tag or the @font-face declaration. Embedding a range of characters rather than using the default of all
characters can reduce the size of the embedded font and, therefore, reduce the final output size of your SWF file. For
more information, see “Setting character ranges” on page 19.
Using advanced anti-aliasing with non-CFF based fonts
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When you embed non-CFF fonts (with the embedAsCFF property set to false), you can use advanced anti-aliasing to
provide those fonts with additional information about the font. Non-CFF embedded fonts that use the advanced antialiasing
information are typically clearer and appear sharper at smaller font sizes. CFF fonts have this information by
default.
By default, non-CFF fonts that you embed in Flex applications use the advanced anti-aliasing information. This default
is set by the fonts.advanced-anti-aliasing compiler option in the flex-config.xml file (the default value is true).
You can override this default value by setting the value in your style sheets or changing it in the configuration file. To
disable advanced anti-aliasing in style sheets, you set the advancedAntiAliasing style property to false in your
@font-face rule, as the following example shows:
@font-face {
src:url("../assets/MyriadWebPro.ttf");
fontFamily: myFontFamily;
advancedAntiAliasing: false;
embedAsCFF: false;
}
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