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Subject: RE: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?
From: Dunn, Jeff
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:45:48 +0100

I had a similar problem and found that it worked when I included the font
outlines. It increases the file size, but, I think it's the only way to get
this to work.

Jeff Dunn
606-655-4130
Multimedia - Design
Clear Channel Web Services Group

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Richardson [yakkatang_yakathotmail [dot] com (mailto:yakkatang_yakathotmail [dot] com)]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:14 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?



But it works fine when I tell flash to play the movie clip, it's just when
it exports it as a swf. Any ideas?

>From: V�ctor Vill�n <kek0athotmail [dot] com>
>Reply-To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
>Subject: Re: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?
>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:09:12 +0200
>
>I tried this sometime and it doesn't work.
>
>If you put a Text Field as a mask it simply does not work as a mask (the
>mask's text disappears...).
>
>Nice, eh? ;)
>
>Bye
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Helen Triolo" <designerati-technica [dot] com>
>To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
>Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:07 PM
>Subject: Re: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?
>
>
>Paul Richardson wrote:
> >
> > What about if the text field is the mask.
> >
>Hmm, never thought about that. You mean you want content showing
>through the letters? I think you'd have to make the letters into
>graphics first (or maybe turning the layer with the text in it into a
>mask layer would automatically do that?), but I don't know if that would
>work with dynamically changing text, so I'll drop out here and hope
>someone else has an idea.
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