AS3 with alivePDF Embedding Fonts - Unable to transcode .afm

Question

I've tried adding the / at the front like many other forums and blogs suggested and that didnt work.

I'm hoping I missed something, and you guys can help me catch it. I'm using the AlivePDF library its working fine so far until now, I am trying to embed the swiss-721-bold-outline, here is my code:

[Embed( source="/../swissFonts/swz721bo.TTF", mimeType="application/octet-stream" )]
        var swissBold:Class;

[Embed( source="/../swissFonts/swiz721bo.afm", mimeType="application/octet-stream" )]
        var BoldAfm:Class;

var regularSwiss:EmbeddedFont = new EmbeddedFont(new swissBold() as ByteArray, new BoldAfm() as ByteArray, CodePage.CP1252);

Simple, but I keep getting these errors:

Unable to resolve '/../swissFonts/swiz721bo.afm' for transcoding
Unable to transcode /../swissFonts/swiz721bo.afm.

Notice that the .TTF file has no errors, just the .afm ...

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '12 at 09:34

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Is the afm file using the cp1252 map? This tool is mentioned for encoding afm files from ttf http://fpdf.fruit-lab.de/index.php

answered Apr 26 '12 at 09:34

Lex

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '12 at 22:03

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You need to specify fontName.

[Embed(source="/../swissFonts/swz721bo.TTF",fontName="swz721bo",mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
var swissBold:Class;

answered Jun 10 '12 at 22:03

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 10:43

I was having the same error:

flex air Assets.as(34): Error: exception during transcoding:
Error: unable to build font 'FontName'

To solve it I added this line:

-managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager

to Project Properties > Compiler Options > Advanced Compiler Options

AS3 with alivePDF Embedding Fonts - Unable to transcode .afm

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