# Embed font from external .as file **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [June 28, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embed-font-from-external-as-file/230743 "2007-06-28T17:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![contrast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@contrast](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/contrast)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embed-font-from-external-as-file/230743/1 "2007-06-28T17:15:29Z")
Thanks to these posts: > **[embedFonts - can't make it happen](https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=265431)** > > Got a web design/development question or just want to hang out with the most awesome people on the planet? Drop on in! > **[Rotate TextField](https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=262770)** > > Got a web design/development question or just want to hang out with the most awesome people on the planet? Drop on in! I know how to embed fonts from inside CS3. I have been working for two days to try to figure out how to embed fonts using an external .as file. I have looked at: [http://www.tink.ws/blog/embedding-fonts-in-as3/](http://www.tink.ws/blog/embedding-fonts-in-as3/) and I have been trying to use the “[Embed] metatag”, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I realize that embedded fonts is done differently based on what environment you are coding in, and perhaps I have twisted together incompatible methods. I am about ready to quit on embedded fonts and just try to avoid rotating my text around. I haven’t encountered anything else in learning AS 3.0 that has slowed me down this much. I would really appreciate some help with this. Here are a few questions if the request to explain how to do this is to vague: 1. Can I embed a font that I did not include in the library? 2. Where do I place the [Embed] metatag, inside the class definition, outside the class definition, if I have to place it at all? If you can help me understand what I am doing wrong I would be very appreciative!