This post is a tutorial about how to embed fonts in Flash. Enjoy it and you may also want to take a look at another text that gives a good base to this topic:

Different languages and fonts

The possibilities

To embed a font in Flash you can chose between adding only one character set into a specific text box or including an entire font in the library.

This animation was made in group at the time that i was studying at PUC-PR in Curitiba, in March 2006. My part was animate, vectorize and color the drawings and also design the scenarios, such as the Taj Mahal and the garden.

The cool and nice cow family drawings were created by Celina Amaral. I'm posting some drawings in black/white that she delivered only as a reference, since the work was in a group.

Data visualization is a new field that allows displaying a set of information in a visual and interactive form. In principle, any programming language that run on client can build these visualizations, but this post covers three alternatives, in ActionScript (Flex / Flash), Java and JavaScript.

This article is more technical about the existing technologies, for an introductory article about this subject, read the post "Data visualization".

When working in Flash/Flex with idioms that have characters others than those that exist in english you'll need to work a little more. Whatever it is, a so different idiom as japanese, with its three distinct alphabets,  or only to include accentuation in latin languages.

When you create a swf, Flash or Flex automatically embed the characters of your static text with the font you choose, increasing the size of your final file. However, when you use dynamic text (coming from database, XML, user's input or rotated and deformed text) the problem with alphabets appears.

I'm very excited about flex and the possibility of him interact (even being a complicated way) with swf done in Flash. As I began in Flash, I felt a bit out of water in Flex, but now I have a little know-how and decided to post some tips for those who are thinking about migration, or to explore, or to know exactly what is Flex.