Re: FLASH: combining movies

[Sarah Lamont]

To outline text, I break it apart then use the outline tool (I don't

know what you call it technically, it looks like an ink bottle) on it.

Hope that helped..:]

�arah

chaozflashcom [dot] net

 wrote:

> 

> not sure if this is correct but if when you do the text and you make it with

> a outline...

> then select the middle part and delete it then do a fill with the color you

> want you would still have your outlined color..i may be wrong but maybe iam

> not..no clue

> but hell it was worth a try

> 

> Crystal Martin wrote:

> 

> >         Hi all!

> >         Is there anyway to make outlined text?  I would like to have the

> > text outlined on the stage and then use a gradient mask to fill it with

> > a colour, but the only way that I've found of outlining the text is to

> > break it all apart and then do a Curves>Soften edges which makes the

> > file real BIG!  Does anyone know of a nicer way of doing this?

> >         Many thanks for any help!

> >         crystal

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