# Another "How to embed several Fonts for use in ONE Textbox" Question

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**Created:** [July 23, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-how-to-embed-several-fonts-for-use-in-one-textbox-question/233420 "2007-07-23T21:03:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-how-to-embed-several-fonts-for-use-in-one-textbox-question/233420/1 "2007-07-23T21:03:31Z")

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Hello.

Long time no see! 🙂

So yea. I have a problem. I have a dynamic Textbox in my SWF. It is attached to a movieclip and can be moved around and such. All somewhat simple. That’s not the issue yet 🙂

What I need to accomplish is for it to accept different non-standard Fonts (from a list of about 50 Fonts that need to be available). I don’t care if it’s done by using the “htmlText”-property of the textfield or the “font” property of the TextFormat object… or any other way- I just need it to work. :puzzled:

What I mean it- I need to find a way to get the characters of a bunch of non-standard Fonts (such as “Army.ttf” and “College.ttf”) to be available in my SWF so that the textfield can draw from that resource.

I know how to use textfields and TextFormat (at least well enough, I think) and AS 2.0 in general (though I am certainly not a pro)… I know how to Embed a Font to a Textfield (not that that is an accomplishment. heh) I just can’t seem to tie the loose ends.

I thought it might be enough to have some textfields in the SWF, “off stage” (one for every font I wanted to embed) and have _them_ embed the font I want in order for it to be in the SWF file for the _dynamic_ Textfield to use… but I guess it’s not at all that simple.

I tried reading into Shared Fonts Functionalities (Shared Libraries and such) but I don’t even know if that is the way to go- I really just need a pointer… or a “that’s not possible, man. forget it :P” )

Thanks all.

~MM