Chapter 7. Text
ONE OF THE most valuable design features in Flash is the ability to embed any font in a SWF file and have it render the same on any platform. Flash also lets you display dynamic text as an embedded font, embed and format fonts dynamically, and apply text-field listeners to trigger events based on specific user interactions.
In this chapter you will learn how to embed fonts, dynamically create and format text fields, and replace ActionScript 2 text-field callback-function properties with the new text events available in ActionScript 3.
Font Usage
With the embed feature, Flash lets you use any font from your computer on the Web. When a font is embedded, end users do not need to have the font on their system to see the result. The extent ...
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