# How to control embedded fonts?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-embedded-fonts/301053
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**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-embedded-fonts/301053 "2009-12-02T22:57:35Z")
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### Author: ![enridp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@enridp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/enridp)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-embedded-fonts/301053/1 "2009-12-02T22:57:35Z")

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Hi! I think I have a problem with my fonts, my file seems to be too heavy, so I checked the option to compile with the file size information and I saw this:

Font Name Bytes Characters

* * *

Arial-Black 8 pts 70484 !"#$%&’()\*+,-./0123456789:;\<=\>?@ABCDEFGHI  
… (etc)

How you can see that font weight 70KB ! I’m using the Arial-Black, and I want to use it, but I don’t know why Flash is embedding ALL the characters, I need just numbers and text, maybe another symbol.  
Even more, a few lines after that I see this:

Arial-Black 12192 !()\*.0123456789:?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzáéíó

So… Flash is embedding twice my Arial-Black???  
How can I control that?? I have a lot of text, I can’t check everyone to see what’s happening… I don’t see enything anyway 😛  
Is there a general control to change the fonts that Flash is embedding?  
My texts are static, and I never embedd the fonts… I think Flash is doing it automatically, and in a REALLY inefficient way.

Thanks!  
enrique