Adobe Flash Professional CS3 - Manual (Page 274)

FLASH CS3
User Guide
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Set dynamic and input text options
1 Click in an existing dynamic text field.
2 In the Property inspector, make sure Dynamic or Input is displayed in the pop-up menu.
3 Enter an instance name for the text field.
4 Specify the height, width, and location of text.
5 Select the font and style.
6 In the Line Type box, specify one of the following options:
Multiline Displays the text in multiple lines.
Single line Displays the text as one line.
Multiline No Wrap Displays text in multiple lines that break only if the last character is a breaking character, such as
Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).
7 To enable users to select dynamic text, click Selectable . Deselect this option to prevent users from selecting
the dynamic text.
8 To preserve rich text formatting (such as fonts and hyperlinks) with the appropriate HTML tags, click Render Text
As HTML .
9 To display a black border and white background for the text field, click Show Border .
10 (Optional) In the Var box, enter the variable name for the text field. (Use this option only when authoring for
Macromedia Flash Player 5 from Adobe or earlier.)
Beginning with Macromedia Flash MX (version 6), you assign the text field an instance name using the Property
inspector. Although you can use the variable name method with dynamic text fields for backwards compatibility to
Macromedia Flash 5 and earlier versions, Adobe doesn't recommend this, because you can't control other text field
properties, or apply style sheet settings.
11 Click Embed for embedded font outline options:
Don’t embed Specifies that no fonts be embedded.
Auto fill Click Auto Fill to embed all of the characters from the selected text field.
Set preferences for vertical text
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh) and click the Editing tab in the Prefer-
ences dialog box.
2 Under Vertical Text, set any of these options:
Default Text Orientation Automatically gives new text fields vertical orientation.
Right to Left Text Flow Makes lines of vertical text fill the page from right to left.
No Kerning Prevents kerning from being applied to vertical text. (Kerning remains enabled for horizontal text.)
Check spelling
You can check spelling in text throughout your Flash document. You can also customize the spell checker.
Use the spell checker
1 Select Text > Check Spelling to view the Check Spelling dialog box.