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Working with Text in Flash 8 ActionScript
In this article, I’m going to look at some of the new text features that are available using ActionScript in Flash 8. If you have read some of the earlier articles, you’ll have seen that Flash 8 includes some improved text options.
This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Out of my mind: Flash 8 Power
Flash 8 uses FlashType - a new text rendering engine. It provides high-quality text rendering, especially at small font sizes so that the appearance of text is improved in Flash Player 8. FlashType can’t be used with earlier Flash Players but it is automatically selected when you publish to the Flash 8 player. Flash 8 also includes other options for working with text including new ActionScript properties for the TextFormat class and new anti-aliasing settings.
Sas Jacobs
Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
and a personal web site.