Font Embed

I want to share my experience with working with Flex and font embedding. Today I noticed that an embedded asset including a symbol with text that embedded the same Font as the Flex compiler did - It seemed to result in a conflict of what scope (or sandbox?) the font should belong to.

1) Flex can embed fonts from a flash-8.swf by the @font-face {} tag.
2) Flex can embed fonts in an instantiated AS3 model to a Class type using the meta Embed tag.
3) Flex can also embed or dynamically load an asset.swf that includes embedded fonts, and then have those exposed to any scope (or sandbox?) that wish to register them. And the other way around - the loaded asset.swf may register the fonts embedded by Flex.

Later I will show how. I haven't yet figured out the reason for the above mentioned problem, but let me start by sharing a simple workaround. In this case the asset.swf had some symbols in library with non-dynamic textfields in it. They where imported or pasted into Flash from an Illustrator design. When embedding/loading these symbols, all other text in the applications other scopes did not render. The solution to this was simply to redo the import from Illustrator to Flash first after I made the Illustrator textfields to outlines.