Subject with loading font isn't new but some its part weren’t still described. Or I missed them and had to walk through debugging nightmare.

So target application is text/image editors on flash that gives user option to be unique and change font style of his label. And the problem is the font as other graphic content has some weight. Including fonts to application affect on user traffic and experience, because user has to wait longer. And here usually comes idea don’t load all fonts with application and load them only when user require it.

It is small library for work with BitmapData. You can easy create image editor with this code. There are many variants of library usage. Demo and all sources are included.

Description
Library can be used in flex of actionscript 3.0 project. Actually there is only one class in library. It contains public methods that do ations with image.
Next is possible with BitmapUtil:

• To change the contrast;
• To change the brightness;
• To change the saturation;
• To do the effect of negative;
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  11 Sep 2007 - 12:20am