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

[Lulu]

>I'm not a long-time user of either of the products

>mentioned, but instead a long-term Corel Draw! user. You avoid breaking text

Len Harrison said


>in Corel so you can edit it later. Things such as outline, fills,

>extrusions, envelopes, rotations, etc. can be edited in Corel without losing

>the text attribute. So I naturally expect that as you expect the opposite.


Hello Len:


No not the quite opposite. In print, I will often work on what I consider 

a *master* Illustrator file where the type is still kept as type (not 

*broken apart* or turned into *outlines* or *curves*) just before I go to 

press or film, as it were, I would take the illustrator file and turn the 

font info into *outlines* or to use Flash terminology *break apart* the 

type. At this point I would take the illustrator file and rename it 

slightly then place the illustrator file into a Quark document for 

runout. This by the way is considered *good ettiquette* in the prepress 

world and so for two reasons. One, files are less likely to have line 

ending jumps because the fonts the film house owns may contain different 

kerning tables than the fonts designer has and second, it shows a level 

of concern for the font designer's copyright over the design of the font. 

If you supply a film house your file with only the outline information it 

would be very difficult to reconstitute a font for illegal use.


Font designers (developers) are one of the big losers in software piracy 

because it is so easy to distribute their fonts electronically. This is 

why I and a lot of people who have worked in typography and print by 

habit turn font information into outlines where possible.


Like I said before, people in the print design biz would not naturally 

think of keeping fonts *as they are* when in Flash due to conventions 

they have learned using other vector based programs. When John pointed 

out yesterday that Flash internerally saves *instances* of a used font 

within the .fla file I was at once surprised and thankful such a method 

has been developed.


-lulu



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