Why can't I display embedded fonts in AS3?

I have gone through all topics on Embedding fonts in AS3 I could find,a nd tried all solutions. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't fully understand what I'm doing so please guide me in the right direction. Many of the answers involve Flash Builder or another tool but I use FlashDevelop. No idea whether that matters.

I have this line in my Main.as:

[Embed(source = "assets/SKA_75_marul_CE_extended.ttf", 
fontName = "SKA_75_marul_CE_extended", 
fontWeight = "bold", 
advancedAntiAliasing = "true", 
mimeType = "application/x-font")] 
public static var SKA_75_marul_CE_extended:String;

And this exists in the constructor of an extended Sprite called Pointer.as:

var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = "SKA_75_marul_CE_extended";
format.color = 0xFFCCCC;
format.size = 20;           

var label:TextField = new TextField();
label.defaultTextFormat = format;
label.text = "test";
label.embedFonts = true;
label.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;

//label.setTextFormat(format);    --> I tried this too, didn't work...
label.defaultTextFormat = format;
label.x += img.width + 50;
this.addChild(label);

The only way I've found to get it to display anything is if I turn off embedFonts. I've tried embedding C:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf without success.

It seems that embedding fonts is a dark art like no other and I must concede after 1 hour of struggling. Please send help.

UPDATE:

Here's the working code, turns out it was due to having the correct order of operations...:

[Embed(source="assets/SKA_75_marul_CE_extended.ttf", 
                fontName = "myFont", 
                mimeType = "application/x-font", 
                fontWeight="normal", 
                fontStyle="normal", 
                unicodeRange="U+0020-U+007E", 
                advancedAntiAliasing="true", 
                embedAsC