Flex 2 Beta 3 provides an easy way to use the improved FlashType font rendering for embedded fonts inside your Flex 2 application.

Currently, the Flex 2 compiler is not capable of creating FlashType fonts for you - instead, you'll have to create a Flash 8 SWF file that embeds the according font. Then, inside your Flex 2 CSS definition, you embed the font as you did before, but refer to the SWF file instead a TTF file. Here's a little demo that shows the difference between the default font embedding and a FlashType font (Flash Player 9 beta 3 required). While the upper Labels appear very blurry, the Labels on the bottom appear very crisp and clear.

Dirk.

I can't get it to work... Can you please publish your source code?

If I try the following as3 code in Flex beta 3 I always get a compiler error:

[Embed(source="2.swf", fontName="Verdana")] public var fontBold:Class;

Error: The definition of base class FonteAsset was not found.

(Used to work in Flex beta2.)

Hmmm... can you help?

Lorenz

you'll have to add the framework.swc file to your projects build path (in Flex Builder 2 go to the project properties, choose ActionScript Build Path --> Library Path --> Add SWC... and locate the framwork.swc, e.g. D:\Programme\Adobe\Flex Builder 2.0 Plug-in Beta 3\Flex SDK 2.0\frameworks\libs\framework.swc)

Dirk.

thanks a lot!!!

Now it's working fine. I can either include an swf or ttf file.

The rendered text looks much cripser and sharper if you use an swf file.

Greetings,

Lorenz