                 : systemManager;
     }
     
-    /**
-     * @private
-     * 
-     * Get the embedded font for a set of font attributes.
-     */ 
-    private function getEmbeddedFont(fontName:String, bold:Boolean, italic:Boolean):EmbeddedFont
-    {
-        // Check if we can reuse a cached value.
-        if (cachedEmbeddedFont)
-        {
-            if (cachedEmbeddedFont.fontName == fontName &&
-                cachedEmbeddedFont.fontStyle == EmbeddedFontRegistry.getFontStyle(bold, italic))
-            {
-                return cachedEmbeddedFont;
-            }   
-        }
-        
-        cachedEmbeddedFont = new EmbeddedFont(fontName, bold, italic);      
-        
-        return cachedEmbeddedFont;
-    }
-
     //----------------------------------
     //  IAutomationObject interface
     //----------------------------------

     */
    private static function get embeddedFontRegistry():IEmbeddedFontRegistry
    {
        if (!_embeddedFontRegistry)
        {
            _embeddedFontRegistry = IEmbeddedFontRegistry(
                Singleton.getInstance("mx.core::IEmbeddedFontRegistry"));
        }

        return _embeddedFontRegistry;

    //  embeddedFontRegistry
    //----------------------------------

	private static var noEmbeddedFonts:Boolean;

    /**
     *  @private
     *  Storage for the _embeddedFontRegistry property.
