The type of CFF hinting used for this text. Use flash.text.engine.CFFHinting constants for this property. This property applies only if the flash.text.engine.RenderingMode property of the text is set to flash.text.engine.RenderingMode.CFF.

The type of CFF hinting used determines whether Flash Player forces strong horizontal stems to fit to a sub pixel grid or not.

Applies only to embedded fonts.

The default value is flash.text.engine.CFFHinting.HORIZONTAL_STEM.

For the flash.text.engine.CFFHinting property, you can use the following string values:

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Specifies how the font should be looked up.

The default value is flash.text.engine.FontLookup.DEVICE.

To set values for this property, use the following string values:

The name of the font to use, or a comma-separated list of font names. Flash Player renders the element with the first available font in the list. For example "Arial, Helvetica, _sans" causes the player to search for "Arial", then "Helvetica" if Arial is not found, then _sans if neither is found.

Flash supports three generic device font names: _sans (like Helvetica and Arial), _serif (like Times Roman), and _typewriter (like Courier). These are mapped to specific device fonts depending on the platform.

The default value is "_serif".

Flash Player provides font fallback for glyphs which are not found in the selected font. Whether the font in use is embedded or device, if the glyph is not found in the font, Flash Player attempts to render it using another device font likely to contain the glyph.

Specifies the font posture.

The default value is flash.text.engine.FontPosture.NORMAL.

To set values for this property, use the following string values:

Specifies the font weight.

The default value is flash.text.engine.FontWeight.NORMAL.

To set values for this property, use the following string values:

Indicates whether or not the FontDescription is locked. If true the FontDescription cannot be modified. Call FontDescription.clone() to get an unlocked copy of the FontDescription object.

The rendering mode used for this text. Use flash.text.engine.RenderingMode constants for this property.

Applies only to embedded fonts.

The default value is flash.text.engine.RenderingMode.CFF.

To set values for this property, use the following string values:

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Creates a FontDescription object.

Constructs an unlocked, cloned copy of the FontDescription.

package {

    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.engine.*;

    
    public class FontDescription_cloneExample extends Sprite {
        private var fd:FontDescription;
        private var fd2:FontDescription;
        
        public function FontDescription_cloneExample():void {
            fd = new FontDescription();
            fd.fontLookup = flash.text.engine.FontLookup.DEVICE;
            fd.fontName = "Palatino";
            fd.fontWeight = flash.text.engine.FontWeight.BOLD;
            fd.fontPosture = flash.text.engine.FontPosture.ITALIC;

            var ef1:ElementFormat = new ElementFormat(fd);
            
            var str:String = "This is flash text 0123456789";
            var tb:TextBlock = new TextBlock();
            var te1:TextElement = new TextElement(str, ef1);
            tb.content = te1;
            var line1:TextLine = tb.createTextLine(null, 600);
            addChild(line1);
            
            fd2 = (fd.locked) ? fd.clone() : fd;    
            fd2.fontWeight = flash.text.engine.FontWeight.NORMAL;
            var ef2:ElementFormat = new ElementFormat(fd2);

            tb.content.elementFormat=ef2;
            var line2:TextLine = tb.createTextLine(null, 600);
            addChild(line2);
            
        }
    }    
}

Returns true if an embedded font is available with the specified fontName, fontWeight, and fontPosture where Font.fontType is flash.text.FontType.EMBEDDED_CFF. Starting with Flash Player 10 two kinds of embedded fonts can appear in a SWF file. Normal embedded fonts are only used by TextField. CFF embedded fonts are only used by the flash.text.engine classes. The two types are distinguised by the fontType property of the Font class, as returned by the enumerateFonts() function.

The flash.text.engine classes cannot use a font of type EMBEDDED. If fontLookup is set to FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF and the only font available at run time with the specified name, weight, and posture is of type EMBEDDED, Flash Player falls back to device fonts on a glyph-by-glyph basis to render the text, as if no embedded font were available with the specified name and style.

If both EMBEDDED and EMBEDDED_CFF fonts are available with the same name, weight, and posture, the EMBEDDED_CFF font is selected and text renders with the EMBEDDED_CFF font.

Parameters

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This example creates a FontDescription object, assigns a device font to it, sets various font properties, and assigns the new object to an ElementFormat object. Additional font formatting is done within ElementFormat. A new TextElement is created, using the ElementFormat, and the TextElement is used as content for a TextBlock. A line of text is created from the TextBlock.

package {

    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.engine.*;

    
    public class FontDescriptionExample extends Sprite {
        
        public function FontDescriptionExample():void {
            var fd:FontDescription = new FontDescription();
            fd.fontLookup = flash.text.engine.FontLookup.DEVICE;
            fd.fontName = "Palatino";
            fd.fontWeight = flash.text.engine.FontWeight.BOLD;
            fd.fontPosture = flash.text.engine.FontPosture.ITALIC;

            var ef1:ElementFormat = new ElementFormat(fd);
            ef1.fontSize = 30;
            ef1.color = 0xFF0000;
            
            var str:String = "This is flash text 0123456789";
            var tb:TextBlock = new TextBlock();
            var te1:TextElement = new TextElement(str, ef1);
            tb.content = te1;
            var line1:TextLine = tb.createTextLine(null, 600);
            addChild(line1);
            
        }
    }    
}