# Facing problems embeding fonts **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [September 28, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/facing-problems-embeding-fonts/164023 "2005-09-28T02:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HEMOglobina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@HEMOglobina](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/HEMOglobina)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/facing-problems-embeding-fonts/164023/1 "2005-09-28T02:07:45Z")
Here is what I want to do (I know… I know… This is supposed to be a simple one, but I’m having a very hard time): I have a lot of dynamic text fields and I want to use a non-system font and for the user to be able to see the font I chose. Pretty much everything I have tried is not working as expected. Here is what I’m doing: 1. I have a dynamic text field on Stage. It is named test\_txt. 2. I open up the library pallete and choose New Font… from the options menu. 3. In the Font Symbol Properties dialog box I gave the font the name “myFont” (without the quotes). 4. from the Font menu I chose the following font: “Romy Caps” and pressed the OK button. 5. I right-clicked the newly created Font Symbol and chose: Linkage… 6. In the linkage dialog I selected “Export for ActionScript” and “Export in first frame”. In the identifier I left “myFont” and pushed the OK button. 7. Back to the Stage, I selected my dynamic text field created earlier and from the font list I chose my newly created font “myFont\*” The first strange thing is the \* at the end of the name. What dos it mean? 1. I did not chose to embed the outline, because since I created a symbol in the library with the font in it, I thought it was not necessary to also embed the font. 2. I published the .SWF and tested it. Everything worked OK. But when I unistalled the font and reopened the SWF, the font was gone and turned into Arial. (I did not republish the movie with the font unistalled, of course. I just relaunched the earlier created .SWF) Why the heck is this happening?! 1. But I did not get tired yet and I tried to also embed the font using the “Embed…” button. 2. To my surprise, things got solved, but the font looked a bit different compared to when I had the font installed and without choosing the “Embed” button. It looked a bit bolder and harder to read. So, my final question is: Could anyone please help me to solve once and for all my font problems? Since the beginning of time I have fought this war with Flash… and believe me… I’m getting kicked by it 🙂 Thank you very much in advance, HEMOglobina PS1: I’m using Flash 8 here. PS2: A link to a definitive tutorial on using fonts would also be great in case you are not feeling like typing