RE: FLASH: Flash text handling isnt up to par.

[Len Harrison]

Hi Lulu


Pardon my jumping in here, but my email software is open, and I was actually

shocked to read this. NO, you don't need to break apart text and it's

probably a good idea not to. If you look at the size report from shocking

the .fla, you'll see that the characters used by each font in your text are

vectorized and only those. You'll also get a byte report, of course, which

is pretty reasonable in size. I'd be curious to see if it was larger when

you broke apart but I bet it is because each letter would then be treated as

a unique object. Might be a lot bigger!


Moreover, if you have a lot of text, you can't edit it after unless you

maintain a separate file. But if you make your text symbols for tweening

purposes but broke it apart first, you'd be in a bit of a bind. Sounds like

it could get to be a real nightmare (my stuff uses a LOT of text and then

gets reviewed by bunches of people and changed a lot. plus when it's all

wrapped up, we localize in German and French. Works okay because all the

text is saved as symbols and the translators just work with that). Fonts are

no problem except for this Postscript issue which seems to affect some PC

users but no one 'round here.


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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