A month ago, I worked on a flex site in which the client requested the use of
"Helvetica LT97 Black Condensed" TTF font (typeface name: HelveticaNeue LT97
BlackCn) and it gave me a *lot* of problems: while developing, it randomly
fell back to Arial or some other (previosly used) font in the application,
after looking at -everything- I couldn't find a solution... when I replaced
that font with any other font, it worked properly, all the time... the problems
only appeared with that particular font file.

The font didn't stop showing up after some use time, but after a compilation;
that is... I set the font, I compile, and see that it's working correctly...
then I work with other parts of the project (totally unrelated to the font), I
compile several times, at some point, it breaks and begins showing the wrong
font.... in other words: the failure happens after several compilations, not
after several executions.

I was not able to find an explanation, but I found a quick fix: whenever the
font failed to show up, I simply RENAMED the truetyle font file with some other
name, retargeted the CSS file to that new file, I recompiled, and voila!, the
font showed up again. So the fix did not came by modyfing the source code in
any way, except by the file renaming.

I finished the project and forgot about the problem.

But today, the client has requested some changes... I did them, and when I
recompiled, it happened again!, the font stopped showing up.

I've searched on the net, and I found this link:

[url]http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=756000[/url]

so apparently, I'm not the only one having the same problem with THAT font,
also, it is interesting to see that he solved the problem also by renaming the
file to something else... although this guy beleaves the problem was because
his original file had a "comma", it is not... my filename didn't have a comma
in the first place, and after that, the problem reappeared, and since them I
renamed the file several times.

It's as if the compiler caches the font with it's filename, and somehow, does
a mess in its cache, taking the wrong font... and being the renaming trick the
only way to reset the cache.

I don't know if this is a flex bug or what, but I hope at least moderators
don't skip this message...

Pd. just in case, the font is purchased, so I don't think it's corrupted or
something, it also shows up well in photoshop.

:disgust;