Thiết kế flash với flash cs5 part 27

In the Character section of the Property Inspector New !, click the Anti-Alias list arrow, and then select one of the following: ◆ Use Device Fonts.. You can open and use the Font Mapp

When a line of text is created in Flash, it appears in a bounding box that

is editable Sometimes you might need to adjust the characters sepa-rately or you might want to modify the shape of the characters them-selves to create new character styles The Break Apart command allows you to do this There are two levels of breaking that you can uti-lize The first break will separate the text box into singular, editable characters This is useful if you want to reposition or align the letters of

a word independently The second break severs the text from its font reference: in essence it becomes a shape that you can edit with any of the drawing tools or pen modifiers

Using Break Apart to

Modify Characters

Break a Text Box into

Single Characters

Select the text box you want to

change with the Selection tool.

Click the Modify menu, and then

click Break Apart.

Each character appears in its own

editable box

TIMESAVER Press A+B

(Mac) or Ctrl+B (Win) to use the

Break Apart command

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The text box is broken into separate text boxes that can be moved and edited separately.

Broken text box

Break a Text Box into Shapes

Select the text box you want to

change with the Selection tool.

Click the Modify menu, and then

click Break Apart.

The characters become individual

text boxes

Click the Modify menu again, and

then click Break Apart.

The characters become simple

shapes that you can adjust with

Flash's drawing tools

TIMESAVER Press A+B

(Mac) or Ctrl+B (Win) twice to

break text into editable shapes

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Text boxes become editable shapes.

See Also

See “Using the Free Transform Tool”

on page 118 for information on

trans-forming objects

Transforming Text

You can use the Free Transform tool or the options on the Modify menu under Transform to transform text boxes in the same ways you transform other objects You can scale, rotate, skew and flip text boxes, but the text might become hard to read However, you can still edit it Important: when you scale a text box as an object, the point size in the Property Inspector may not be accurate To restore a transformed object, select the object, click the Modify menu, point to Transform, and then click Remove Transform

For Your Information

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Characters become individual text boxes.

Anti-aliasing affects the pixels on the edge of a shape by allowing

them to blend in with the background It is a crucial feature when work-ing with some text as it makes it appear smoother and more integrated

Flash includes FlashType, a new text rendering feature that improves anti-aliasing and readability for fonts FlashType is enabled whenever Flash Player 7 or later is the selected player, and anti-aliasing is set to anti-aliasing for readability or custom The drawback with anti-aliasing

is that at smaller font sizes the text can appear blurry To avoid this problem, use sans serif text, such as Helvetica or Arial, and don’t use bold and italic You can use anti-aliasing with static, dynamic, and input text You apply anti-aliasing to text boxes instead of characters

Using Anti-Alias Text

Set a Text Box to Anti-Alias Text

Select the text box you want to

change with the Selection tool.

In the Character section of the

Property Inspector (New !), click

the Anti-Alias list arrow, and then

select one of the following:

◆ Use Device Fonts The SWF file

uses fonts installed on the local

computer to display fonts

◆ Bitmap Text (No Anti-Alias)

(Classic) No text smoothing.

◆ Anti-Alias for Animation

(Classic) or Animation (TLF)

Smooths out animation

◆ Anti-Alias for Readability

(Classic) or Readability (TLF)

Smooths out text

◆ Custom Anti-Alias (Classic)

Modify font properties

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Anti-alias text

at small sizes

Alias text

Anti-aliasing blends the edge pixels with the background.

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Classic text

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If you open a document with a missing font on a computer, a Missing Font alert appears, asking you to choose a substitute font You can open and use the Font Mapping dialog box to map a substitute font to the missing font, view the mapped fonts in the document, and delete a font mapping After you select a substitute font, text appears with the correct font (if available) or the substitute font (if missing) When you use a substitute font, the text box or attributes might need to be adjusted

Using Font Mapping

Select Substitute Fonts

Open the document with the fonts

you want to map

◆ To view all the font mappings

saved on your computer, close

all documents

Click the Flash (Mac) or Edit (Win)

menu, and then click Font

Mapping.

Click a font in the Missing Fonts

column

TIMESAVER Press Shift+click

to select multiple missing fonts to

map to the same substitute font

Click the Substitute Font list arrow,

and then click a font, or click

System Default.

Click OK.

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Did You Know?

You can delete the font mapping Close

all documents, click the Flash (Mac) or

Edit (Win) menu, click Font Mapping,

select a font mapping, click Delete, and

then click OK

You can turn off the Missing Font alert.

Click the Flash (Mac) or Edit (Win)

menu, click Font Mapping, select the

Don’t Show Again For This Document,

Always Use Substitute Fonts check

box, and then click OK

When you include a font in your Flash document that is installed on your computer, you can include the font into the exported Flash movie

This is called an embedded font and it ensures that your fonts will look

consistent when displayed on other computers This adds to the file size, as each character from the selected font family has to be included

in the final SWF If file size is an issue, and the exact character match-ing is not important, you can choose to use device fonts The Font Embedding dialog allows you to add or remove the fonts (all or part) you want to embed in the Flash document (New!) You can view a list

of all your embedded fonts in one place When a font is set to device, Flash will not embed the font information in the exported file Instead the Flash Player will substitute the closest resembling font by name on the computer playing the Flash movie The drawback is that you won't

be able to predict how the fonts will display on every computer To combat this uncertainty, Flash includes three device fonts Each is designed with characteristics of typical fonts usually found by default

on most computers You can also choose device fonts when using small font sizes because they are not anti-alias and display clearly

Setting Device Fonts

Versus Embedded

Fonts

Embed Fonts

Select the text box with the fonts

you want to embed with the

Selection tool.

Click the Embed button in the

Property Inspector

Click the Options tab, and then

specify a font name, family, style,

and character ranges you want

To add or delete an embedded

font, do either of the following:

◆ Add New Font Click Add New

Font button, and then specify

the font information in the

Options tab

◆ Delete Font Select a font from

the Font list, click the Delete

Selected Font button, and then

click OK.

Click the ActionScript tab, and

then select options to export font

information for ActionScript or to

share font information for runtime

sharing

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Embedded fonts

Set a Text Box to Device Font

Select the text box you want to set

to the device font with the

Selection tool.

Click the Anti-Alias list arrow in

the Property Inspector, and then

click Use Device Fonts.

Choose a Built-In Flash

Device Font

Select the text box you want to set

to the device font with the

Selection tool.

Click the Family list arrow in the

Property Inspector or click the

Text menu, point to Font, and then

select one of the following fonts:

◆ _sans Matches up with a

sans-serif font, such as Helvetica or

Arial

◆ _serif Matches up with a serif

font, such as Times or

Garamond

◆ _typewriter Matches up with a

typewritten-looking font, such

as Courier

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Did You Know?

You can test for missing fonts If there

is incomplete font information on your

computer, fonts may appear in the Font

list in Flash but will not embed in the

final movie To test whether a font is

complete, click the View menu, point to

Preview Mode, and then click

Anti-alias Text If the text appears jagged,

this means the font outlines are

miss-ing from the system