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Embedding fonts

Embedding fonts - Flash Professional Tutorial

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Embedding fonts

There are a few reasons why you'd want to embed fonts into your applications. First off, if you're using a font that a user might not have installed, you want to make sure that you embed the fonts, so that they see the font you intended them to see. So on the stage here I'm using a font called OCR A Std. Now this font works with my application, but it's not a font that everyone will necessarily have, so it's a good idea to embed it. In addition to keeping your design's integrity, embedding fonts also unlocks tricks that you can do, like adjusting alpha. So let's take a look how to embed a font and some of the benefits you get of doing so. I'll click the Embed button in the Properties panel with the font selected and you'll see here that Flash creates an embedded font for me. Now all I have to do is given a name. So I'll call it OCR and you can choose the font family, which is just the font, and then here we choose which characters to embed. Now definitely, don't forget this step. If…

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