htmlText not showing bold or italics font

actionscript-3 textfield htmltext dynamic-text
Conor picture Conor · May 11, 2010 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

So I have a MovieClip asset with a dynamic textfield sitting inside of it. I export my .fla as a .swc to use within Flash Builder 4, and create instances of the asset with code, populating the text dynamically from XML.

My issue is that even though I have htmlText enabled, bold and italics tags don't appear to be working. I have a feeling it is because when I created the asset in Flash CS4, the text field makes you specify the font, and the subset of that to use (Regular, Bold, Oblique, etc).

Is there any way to get the htmlText to render bold and italics tags properly without having to completely rethink the way I'm creating all these fields?

Answer

Jide picture Jide · Dec 23, 2010

Okay I found a good solution, you need to make sure that the Linkage settings for the embedded fonts are set to export for actionscript OR that that font is used in some textfield in the SWF, otherwise, Flash thinks that the font is not being used and just doesn't embed it.

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