Re: FLASH: 12-pt body text in Flash

[Marc Hoffman]

At 05:58 PM 4/25/99 -0700, you wrote:

>It's not your imagination Hal.  That's how I do it also.  I wonder though

>if it's making my files larger?

>

>>not sure if this will do what you like, but i usually 'smooth' my fonts

>>out by making the paragraph or whatever that I want, and then breaking it

>>apart (ctrl-b) and grouping it together again (ctrl-g)... unless it's my

>>imagination, that tends to smooth the edges for me, and makes it look

>>nicer.


Hi Sienna.

Sure it will make your files larger.  Flash only stores once the outline

for any specific font/letter  you use, so you're getting the benefits of

symbol re-use. If you break up the text, even if you regroup it, Flash will

have to store the image information once for every occurrence of what used

to be a letter but is now a shape. The only time it won't matter is if a

letter is used only once in the movie.




Marc Hoffman

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