Chapter 8. Working with Text
For designers who love fonts, Flash is a dream come true. Even if you never plan to animate anything, you may want to use Flash simply to see your fonts displayed how you want them, wherever and whenever you need them on the Web. Of course, there are a few exceptions to this unequivocal freedom, but Flash has options that give you text styles to meet nearly any project criteria.
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Flash CS4 has finally caught up with other design applications by implementing Adobe CoolType font menus that separate font selection into Family and Style menus so that you can more easily specify the exact font that you want to use. This change is visible in all areas of the program where font settings are controlled.
Because Flash is a vector program, it enables you to integrate most fonts within the movie without any fuss. For standard text content, this means that fonts don't have to be rendered into bitmap elements — the .swf files that Flash publishes (or exports) include all the necessary information for the font to appear properly on every browser as long as the Flash Player is installed. ...
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