When embedding fonts in Flash or Flex the size of the swf becomes too big to be useful. If we embed simplifiedChinese (13746 glyphs) the size of an empty swf with only a text-field is a whopping 3.9MB. Using flash with dynamic text together with embedded fonts is a real pain in the *ss. It seems there is no way to just use the glyphs you need and embed them at run-time.