Rotate and animate dynamic text fields in Flash
By now you’ve seen the Dylan Messaging viral campaign. It’s a pretty hip use of Flash. I was pretty sure I knew how the effect was done, so I was running some Flash experiments to test out my theory. Everything was just as I expected until I hit a snag. How do you rotate or otherwise animate a dynamic text field in Flash?
If you’ve ever tried this, you have probably discovered that containing the dynamic text field in a movie clip will work with default font settings, but only for X and Y animation. In order to be able to rotate, skew, or add effects, the font must be embedded. Now you know.
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