reducing font loading time flex

Question

I Wanted To Load Some Fonts In My SWF Application These Fonts Are Really Fat To Load So It Takes More Time To Load When Needed ...

I have some specific idea --> can i load these fonts before loading my application ? means when my front-page(which is just HTML) is arrives in browser at that time can i load font SWF in backend so that i can use it in application whenever i need :)

specific question is that :- does flex loads fonts in browser cache or flash cache ? and can i use loaded font from another instance of flash player....

if i could load fonts in cache which i have loaded them from another html page and another flash player instance : can save my time

Is the loaded font available to other swf throughtout a web site or just the page the font was loaded on.

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Robin van den Bogaard Robin van den Bogaard · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-16T08:49:57

You could embed the fonts inside the flex application, this way the fonts will be downloaded with the SWF file. This way you can easily use them at run time.

For more info: Embed Fonts

[Edit] I would suggest you define the font as a style declaration that you can load at runtime using the styleManager.

var url:String = "/pathTo/otherModule.swf"
var styleManager:IStyleManager2 = mx.styles.StyleManager.getStyleManager(null);
var dispatcher:IEventDispatcher = styleManager.loadStyleDeclarations2(url, true);
dispatcher.addEventListener(StyleEvent.COMPLETE, onReady);
dispatcher.addEventListener(StyleEvent.ERROR, onError);
dispatcher.addEventListener(StyleEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);

reducing font loading time flex

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