title: AS3 - TextField: Embedded font
body: <p>This code will not render text to the screen. Changing,</p>
  
  <pre><code>drawText.embedFonts = false;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Renders text, but font size doesn't modify or the color.</p>
  
  <pre><code>package {
  
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  import flash.text.TextField;
  import flash.text.TextFormat;
  import flash.text.*;
  
  public class DrawText extends Sprite {
  
      private var drawText:TextField;
      private var myFormat:TextFormat;
  
      [Embed(source="c:/windows/fonts/verdana.ttf", fontFamily="Verdana", embedAsCFF="false")]
      private var verdana:Class;
      public function DrawText(mX:int,mY:int){
  
          myFormat = new TextFormat("Verdana");
          myFormat.size = 32;
          myFormat.color = 0x00FFFF;
  
          drawText = new TextField();
          drawText.embedFonts = true;
          drawText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
          drawText.selectable = false;
          drawText.type = "dynamic";
          drawText.multiline=true;
          drawText.wordWrap=true;
          drawText.x = 128;
          drawText.y = 128;
          drawText.text = "TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST";
          drawText.defaultTextFormat = myFormat;
          addChild(drawText);
  
      }//END constructor
  
  }//END class
  
  }//END package
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's really frustrating any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Flash Builder 4.6.</p>