Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

More-Complex Animation Tasks

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Tweening Text

Tweening Text

You can use the multiple-layer tween idea to animate individual characters within a piece of

text. After you create the text that you want to animate, select it and choose Modify > Break

Apart.  at command places each character in its own text  eld. Next, with each character of

the text selected, choose Modify > Timeline > Distribute to Layers. Each character winds up

on its own layer. Now use any of the animating techniques you learned in Chapters 8 ( frame

by frame), 9 (classic tween), and 11 (motion tween), to animate the individual text characters

(Figure 12.22).

To transform the ...