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| Subject: | RE: FLASH: Masks with text boxes? |
| From: | Paul Richardson |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:21:05 +0100 |
Not if the text in the text boxes is the mask layer itself. The include
font outlines only works if the text box is under the mask layer.
>From: "Dunn, Jeff" <JeffDunn
clearchannel [dot] com>>Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com>To: "'flasher
chinwag [dot] com'" <flasherchinwag [dot] com>>Subject: RE: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?
>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:27:56 -0400
>
>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_yak
hotmail [dot] com (mailto:yakkatang_yakhotmail [dot] com)]>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:14 PM
>To: flasher
chinwag [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 <kek0
hotmail [dot] com>> >Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> >To: <flasher
chinwag [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" <designer
i-technica [dot] com>> >To: <flasher
chinwag [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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