Why need to load ttf font directly?

Editors like text processors, T-Shirt editors and others, can allow user to upload and use their own fonts.

How it was done?

The steps are:

• The ttf font file is loaded and parsed by FontReader
• Generate a SWF file in memory that include the pasred TTF font data by as3swf
• Loader the generated SWF to the application domain
• Register the font which is included in the generated SWF

Dependency

• FontReader Convert True Type fonts in graphics with Flex. http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2007/07/fontreader_convert_truetype_fonts_in.php
• as3swf A low level Actionscript 3 library to parse, create, modify and publish SWF files. https://github.com/claus/as3swf/tree/

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