Flex/Flash Font Embedding

I have a Flex 4 project that exists in a hybrid state of Flex/Flash AS3. I've declared a stylesheet in the base component of a Window:

<fx:Style source="styles/styles.css" />

And all of my Flex components can display this font. The stylesheet looks like this:

@font-face {
    src: url("../fonts/Whitney-Light-Pro.otf");
    fontFamily: WhitneyLight;
    advancedAntiAliasing: true;
}

...

.subBranding {
    fontFamily: WhitneyLight;
    fontSize: 20;
    color: #000000;
}

And Flex is able to display the specified font with the given styleName of subBranding. The problem comes in when I try to reference these fonts within a TextFormat object. I can refer to them b开发者_Go百科y their proper font name ("Whitney Light") and it will show up as long as embedFonts is not set to true on the TextField that contains the text/font. This is likely because I actually have the font(s) installed. When I refer to them as WhitneyLight:

new TextFormat("WhitneyLight", 18, 0x000000);

I end up with Times or something to that effect with embedFonts = false and nothing with embedFonts = true because "WhitneyLight" doesn't exist according to TextFormat. I then enumerated over the fonts as far as the Font object is concerned:

var fontArray:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
trace("Fontarray length: " + fontArray.length);
for(var j:int = 0; j < fontArray.length; j++) {
    var thisFont:Font = fontArray[j];
    trace("FONT " + j + ":: name: " + thisFont.fontName + " embedded as type:" + thisFont.fontType + ".");
}

And the output I get is:

Fontarray length: 1
FONT 0:: name: WhitneyLight is embedded as type: embeddedCFF.

My understanding is that my font is embedded. What the heck?

Any ideas?

In the stylesheet I need to embed a separate set of the font with the style "embedAsCFF: false;" set. When traced out, the font shows up as embedded as type "embedded" instead of "embeddedCFF" and functions in the TextFormat object. Though the exact answer wasn't there, I found the clue in some slides from a presentation Colin Moock debuted on Flash CS3/Flex Builder 3 interactivity where he used the [Embed] metatag to embed with embedAsCFF set to false. I guessed that there was a matching CSS style, and came out a winner.

So now I have WhitneyLight and WhitneyLightFlash, one for use with Spark/Halo Labels and another for TextFormat/TextField object pairings.