Update

This post was originally written when CS5 first landed and the way I had been previously setting up font embedding stopped working. I was unaware, at that time, of the ability to enumerate over the embedded fonts that would completely eschew the need to reference something like actual TTF data in an external application (my initial comments). At this point I suggest you take a look through the more recent comments if the below suggestions do not work for you as there is some useful information throughout.

Original Post:

(…and breaks the way everyone has been doing it with ActionScript).

Basically, no longer do you embed a font like this:

Flash CS5 brings along with it a new item in the Text menu for your FLA. Simply select Text, and go down to Font Embedding:

Once selected, hit the plus to create a new font entry, and customize it as you desire (weights, embedded glyphs, etc). If you don’t need to reference it from ActionScript, you’re finished, but if you do, read on…

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