Monday, June 28, 2010

Text Layout Format

I just stumbled across this today:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/

It's a neat addition to the adobe text toolset. You'll have to require the 10 player but in return you get the following:


  • Additional character styles, including leading, ligatures, highlight color, underline, strikethrough, case, digit case, and more.


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  • Additional paragraph styles, including multi-column support with gutter width, last line justification options, margins, indents, paragraph spacing, and container padding values.


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  • Control of additional Asian text attributes, including Tate Chu Yoko, Mojikumi, Kinsoku Shori Type, and Leading model.



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  • You can apply attributes such as 3D Rotation, Color Effects, and Blend Modes to TLF text without placing it in a movie clip symbol.


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  • Text can flow across multiple text containers. These containers are called threaded or linked text containers.


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  • The ability to create right-to-left text for Arabic and Hebrew scripts.


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  • Support for bi-directional text, where right-to-left text can contain elements of left-to-right text. This is important for embedding English words or Arabic numerals within Arabic/Hebrew text, for example.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

PDF 2 SWF

Need to convert a PDF into a SWF?

http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php/Pdf2swf

Now use textsnapshot to muck with the data!


Oh and... Here's a tool for the reverse: http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/?p=364

Saturday, June 5, 2010

FDT no trace bug

Tks @beautifycode! He's got the fix if you're unable to see traces in the Eclipse's console.

You need to be sure that you have the debug flash player installed.

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