Adobe 38039336 - Flash CS3 Professional User Manual page 276

See also
"Using shared library assets" on page 219
"Copy library assets between documents" on page 217
Create a font library item
1 Open the library to add a font symbol to.
Select New Font from the Library Panel menu.
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3 Enter a name for the font item in the Name text field.
Select a font from the Font menu or enter the name of a font in the Font text field.
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(Optional) Select Bold or Italic.
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6 (Optional) To embed the font information as bitmap data rather than vector outline data, select the Bitmap Text
option, and enter a font size in the Size text field. (Bitmap fonts cannot use anti-aliasing. You must choose Bitmap as
the anti-aliasing option in the Property inspector for text that uses this font.)
Note: The Size setting applies only when you use the Bitmap Text option.
Assign an identifier string to a font library item
Select the font item in the Library panel.
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2 Do one of the following:
• Select Linkage from the Library Panel menu.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the font symbol name in the Library panel, and select
Linkage.
Under Linkage, select Export for Runtime Sharing.
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4 In the Identifier text field, enter a string to identify the font item.
In the URL text field, enter the URL of the SWF file that contains the font item.
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Scrolling text
There are several ways to create scrolling text in Flash:
• Make dynamic or input text fields scrollable by using menu commands or the text field handle.
• Add a ScrollBar component to a text field to make it scroll. For more information, see "UIScrollBar Component"
in the ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference.
• In ActionScript, use the TextField object's
and
hscroll maxhscroll
text in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash.
Make dynamic text scrollable
• Shift-double-click the handle on the dynamic text field.
• Using the Selection tool , select the dynamic text field and then select Text > Scrollable.
• Select the dynamic text field with the Selection tool. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the
dynamic text field and select Text > Scrollable.
and
scroll
properties to control horizontal scrolling in a text field. See Example: Creating scrolling
properties to control vertical scrolling and the
maxscroll
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