MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH, Use Manual

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170 Working with Text
4. In the Property inspector, click Format Options and set the following options:
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To set alignment, click the Top, Center, Bottom, or Full Justification button.
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To set top or bottom margins, use the Left or Right margin control. Click the triangle
next to the Left Margin value to set the top margin or the Right Margin value to set
the bottom margin and drag the slider to select a value, or enter a value in the numeric
field.
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To specify indents, click the triangle next to the Indent value and drag the slider to
select a value, or enter a value in the numeric field.
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To specify line spacing, click the triangle next to the Line Spacing value and drag the
slider to select a value, or enter a value in the numeric field.
Setting anti-aliasing options for text
Flash provides improved font rasterization that lets you specify the anti-aliasing properties for
fonts. The improved anti-aliasing capabilities are available only when publishing SWF files for
Flash Player 8. If you are publishing files for use with Flash Player 7 or earlier versions, you
can only use the Anti-Alias for Animation feature.
You apply anti-aliasing for each text field rather than each character. Also, when you open
existing FLA files in Flash 8, the text is not automatically updated to the Advanced Anti-Alias
option; you must select individual text fields and manually change the anti-aliasing settings.
For more information, see
“Upgrading Flash 7 content to use Flash 8 anti-aliasing options”
on page 171 .
To select an anti-aliasing option for selected text:
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In the Property inspector, choose one of the following options from the Anti-Aliasing
pop-up menu:
Use Device Fonts specifies that the SWF file use the fonts installed on the local computer
to display the fonts. Although this option has the least impact on the size of the SWF file,
it also forces you to rely on the fonts installed on the user’s computer for font display. For
example, if you specify the font Times Roman as a device font, the Times Roman font
must be installed on the computer playing back the content for the text to display. For this
reason, when using device fonts, choose only commonly installed font families.
Bitmap Text (No Anti-Alias) turns off anti-aliasing and provides no text smoothing. The
text is displayed using sharp edges, and the resulting SWF file size is increased because the
font outlines are embedded in the SWF. Bitmap text is sharp at the exported size, but
scales poorly.