Re: FLASH: Gradient

[John Croteau]

Hi Jay,


> Thanks John - worked a charm.

> I'm not planning on using it for anything, I'm just perusing the F4 drawing

> tools and getting a feel for the place. When I broke apart this particular

> font though it selected the blank section of the capital "D" I'm guessing

> this was due to the type of font face I was using because Arial didn't do

> that.

The problem with the font that you broke apart is with the costruction

of the fonr character itself (in the font). Fonts that have interior

shapes are supposed to have the external shape path going in the

opposite direction from the interior shape (counterclockwise verses

clockwise). If they do not have the paths going in opposite directions

some progrms will display the interior as filled instead of hollow.


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