# FLASH BUILDER 4, Embedding fonts - help!

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**Created:** [January 28, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-builder-4-embedding-fonts-help/303897 "2010-01-28T19:32:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-builder-4-embedding-fonts-help/303897/1 "2010-01-28T19:32:50Z")

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Im going out of my mind here, how the F\*\*\* do i embed font in as3 projects coded in Flash Builder 4? I have been working on this all day and i am on the verge of throwing Flash Builder out the window and just start working in the Flash IDE again.

Here is a quick new project i set up to demonstrate my issue:

```auto
package {
    /**
     * Test code for embedding fonts
     * @author Brian Lund Lauridsen
     * @date Jan 28, 2010
     */
    
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;
    
    public class main extends Sprite {
        
        //Embed(source='Arial.ttf', fontWeight='Regular', fontName="Arial", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")] //isn't working either.
        //var myFont:Class;
        
        [Embed(systemFont='Arial', fontWeight='Regular', fontName="Arial", mimeType="application/x-font")]
        public static const Arial:Class;
        
        // Constructor
        [SWF(backgroundColor=0xFFFFFF, width=800, height=600)]
        public function main() {
            
            var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat("Arial", 100);
            
            var t:TextField = new TextField();
                t.setTextFormat(tf);
                t.embedFonts = true;
                t.text = "Some random text in Gotham";
                t.width = t.height = 2000;
                
            addChild(t);
        }
    }
}

```

No matter what i do, the text just comes up blank! God ■■■■ i am going nuts here. If i remove t.embedfonts = true i can see the text but only with the normal font.

Oh, and i am passing this on to the compiler arguments -managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager