# Embedded Fonts and AS 2.0

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embedded-fonts-and-as-2-0/263636>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 17, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embedded-fonts-and-as-2-0/263636 "2008-06-17T20:32:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![winstonSmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@winstonSmith](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/winstonSmith)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embedded-fonts-and-as-2-0/263636/1 "2008-06-17T20:32:35Z")

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Is there any way to embed a font in action script without having to Library’s menu?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embedded-fonts-and-as-2-0/263636/2 "2008-06-18T09:01:02Z")

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that make no sense

you go into properties and embed font and the characters you want.

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**Author:** ![creatify](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@creatify](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/creatify)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embedded-fonts-and-as-2-0/263636/3 "2008-06-18T16:22:53Z")

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In AS2 (not sure in FlashAS3 but I believe in FLEX/AS3 you can embed fonts inline within the code) there isn’t any other way that I know of to embed fonts - besides the library and besides directly in the textField - like the post above mentions.

However, what is the issue - what are you looking to do? You might consider using a shared library for you fonts. The big reasons are: all fonts are in one swf - your other swfs have font references in their libraries to the sharedlibrary.swf. So, you can change a font in one swf, as long as the library/linkage name remains the same, and not have to publish all the other swfs that are utilizing the shared library. Another reason is compile time - compiling fonts, on a Mac takes soooooo long, so haveing them in a shared library means I don’t have to wait for fonts to compiles in my main app swfs.

Hope this helps