[SOLVED] What methods are there for creating FLAs with dynamically created text, that outputs swfs with only the font glyphs included that are required?

What methods are there for creating FLAs with dynamically created text, that outputs swfs with only the font glyphs included that are required?

When I create an FLA with static text fields it only includes the glyphs that are in the text fields. This is the behaviour required, but I want to create those text fields from XML.

I want to be able to create an FLA with dynamic text fields so that I can populate them using a config ( XML ) file, and then the output is like an FLA with static text fields - so that I use as few glyphs as possible.

Is this possible?

I suppose I could write a .jsfl script to read an XML file to make this work on a template FLA file?

Any other methods?

Solution

You could embed the font using the embed statement in which you can define a unicode range.

For example:

[Embed(source="../someFont.ttf", 
    fontName = "myFont", 
    fontWeight="normal", 
    fontStyle="normal", 
    unicodeRange="U+0030-0039,U+002E", 
    embedAsCFF="false")]
private var myEmbeddedFont:Class;

(Note that you can embed multiple Unicode ranges / single characters by separating them with a comma.)

(source)

You could also use the fontswf utility which is a command-line utility which generates an swf with an embedded font. You can define character ranges here as well.