Recently noticed that some standard code that works fine for embedding Open Type and True Type fonts in an AS3 application in the Flash IDE, doesn’t always work for some Postscript fonts.

It turns out that only Type 1 Postscript fonts can be embedded in Flash. If the Postscript font is Type 0, Type 5, or Type 9 it won’t work. That’s what this Adobe quickstart page seems to imply.

Here’s an example that worked fine for True Type, Open Type but not for some Postscript fonts:

//...
			font1 = new ArialFont1(); //12pt 
		//...			
			myFormat2 = new TextFormat();
			myFormat2.font = font1.fontName;
			myFormat2.size = 13; 
			myFormat2.leading = 2;
			myFormat2.color = 0x000000; 
		//...	
			subHeader = new TextField();	
			subHeader.defaultTextFormat = myFormat2; 
			subHeader.width = 300;
			subHeader.height = 150; 			
			subHeader.embedFonts = true;
			subHeader.wordWrap = true;
			subHeader.multiline = true; 	
			subHeader.x = 175; //110
			subHeader.y = 96;
			subHeader.htmlText = "place holder text...";
			addChild(subHeader);		
//...