# Sharing embedded font subsets between text fields

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-embedded-font-subsets-between-text-fields/241235>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 11, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-embedded-font-subsets-between-text-fields/241235 "2007-10-11T08:58:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![NickZA](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nickza/32/3452_2.png) [@NickZA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NickZA)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-embedded-font-subsets-between-text-fields/241235/1 "2007-10-11T08:58:51Z")

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Hi

I have seen that there are two basic ways in which people embed fonts – one is to pop the entire font into the library and refer to it using AS. I would be fine with this but I imagine there is a more efficient way than loading the whole font.  
The other option which at first glance appears better is to load a font subset into the textfield – the only problem being that you have to do this for each and every text field (AFAIK).  
I have a number of fields that all use the Basic Latin subset; is there any way (possibly using AS) that I can do this more efficiently by sharing the embedded subset between all my fields?

Thanks,

-Nick