There was an issue with compiling external font swf made up of a font family in flex builder. For example when trying to generate a set of AkzidenzGrotesk regular, light, bold and black the bold will now show up.
Here is a typical font embedding code in an actionscript project.
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class AkzidenzGrotesqueBold extends Sprite
{
[Embed(source='assets/AkzidenzGrotesk-Bold.otf', fontName='AkzidenzGrotesqueBold')]
public static var AkzidenzGrotesqueBold:Class;
}
}
Every font will compile and generate a corresponding swf except bold.
To get around this issue make sure to define the font weight.
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class AkzidenzGrotesqueBold extends Sprite
{
[Embed(source='assets/AkzidenzGrotesk-Bold.otf', fontWeight='bold' fontName='AkzidenzGrotesqueBold')],
public static var AkzidenzGrotesqueBold:Class;
}
}
Don’t bother defining the fontFamily=”AkizidenzGrotesk”, CSS in flash will ignore it. It only uses the fontName=”blah”.
Bold font should have fontWeight=”bold”, italic font should have fontStyle=”italic” and a bold italic should define both.
Hope that helps
~mark