FLASH  CS5 New text behaviour

Alejandra Jarabo
MAT 116
Media Arts & Technologies Division. Santa Barbara City College
WORKING WITH FLASH
 
 

The way we work with text has greately changed in Flash CS5. The general shift is towards more versatilily when using text for web use.

There are some things that actually have turned out to be more complicated, one of them is the obscure concept of the "Runtime Shared Library".

As default, Flash will want to place your "font information" (this is not exactly embedding the font in the file, just the font description) in an external file.

  
DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR THE
RUNTIME SHARED LIBRARY
 
external file  

When you export your fla file to swf, you will see this file created in the same folder that the fla and swf files are located.

This file needs to be copied to the server with the swf/swfs and html files for the project to work correctly online.
 
Warning pop-up   If you are using text and the file is set to add an extrenal file for text (this is the default option!) Flash will give you this warning.
 
     
 

There must be cases where you need the text information to be in a separate file but that is NOT our case.

Leaving them like that will be specially problematic when you are setting up a pre-loader animation and script for your project (we will do that in module 15).

Most of the time you will want the font information embedded in the file, with all the rest of the information for the file.
To change the setting you need to:

1. Go to Publish Settings option under the FILE menu.
2. On the Flash tab (central tab up on the dialog window) click on the button Settings for ActionScripting 3.0
3. On the Library path tab (central tab on the middle of the dialog window),
change the "Default linkage" option (down on the page) to "Merged into code".

 
 
CHANGE THE SETTINGS OF THE RUNTIME SHARED LIBRARY
 
publish preferences