For a new project I have to dynamically load a font from an external .SWF file to use in the main movie. The main movie contains a dynamic textfield for which I want to use the externally loaded font. The font must be embedded, because I want to mask and fade this dynamic textfield.
After a few tries, I tried to use so called Shared Libraries. That means I created a .SWF with one font in the library, and set this font to export for runtime sharing, giving it an identifier name. This .SWF was loaded into the main Movie, and placed inside an empty movieClip. I tried to set the font of the textfield with “textFormat.font = movieClip.idName”. This didn’t work at all. I don’t even know how to reference to this externally loaded font. 
Well… dynamic textfields and embedded fonts can be hard sometimes, but this seems nearly impossible.
I’ve googled and found this Adobe page: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15570 which seems to tell me it’s impossible.
Yet this guy seems to have mastered the trick: http://www.sharedfonts.com/eng/
Could anyone on this forum please teach me the dark mysteries of externally loaded fonts?
