Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 619)

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Set preferences for vertical text
1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh) and click the Text category in the Preferences 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.)
Setting classic text attributes
About classic text attributes
Note: To use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), use ActionScript to apply a stylesheet. For more information, see Applying cascading style sheets in
the ActionScript 3.0 Developer’s Guide.
You can set the font and paragraph attributes of text. Font attributes include font family, point size, style, color, letter spacing, autokerning, and
character position. Paragraph attributes include alignment, margins, indents, and line spacing.
For static text, font outlines are exported in a published SWF file. For horizontal static text, you can use device fonts instead of exporting font
outlines.
For dynamic or input text, Flash Professional stores the names of the fonts, and Flash Player locates identical or similar fonts on the user’s
system. You can also embed font outlines in dynamic or input text fields. Embedding font outlines can increase file size, but it ensures that users
have the correct font information.
When creating new text, Flash Professional uses the text attributes that are currently set in the Property inspector. When you select existing text,
use the Property inspector to change font or paragraph attributes, and to direct Flash Professional to use device fonts rather than embedding font
outline information.
Set a font, point size, style, and color
1. Using the Selection tool , select one or more text fields on the Stage.
2. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select a font from the Family pop-up menu, or enter a font name.
Note: The _sans, _serif, _typewriter, and device fonts can be used only with static horizontal text.
3. Enter a value for the font size.
Font size is set in points, regardless of the current ruler units.
4. To apply bold or italic style, select the style from the Style menu.
If the selected font does not include a bold or italic style, the style does not appear in the menu. You can select the Faux Bold or Faux Italic
styles from the Text menu (Text > Style > Faux Bold or Faux Italic). Faux Bold and Faux Italic styles are added to the Regular style by the
operating system. The faux styles may not look as good as fonts that include a true bold or italic style.
5. Select a font rendering method from the Anti-Aliasing pop-up menu (directly below the Color control) to optimize text.
6. To select a fill color for text, click the Color control and do one of the following:
Select a color from the Color menu.
Type a color’s hexadecimal value in the box in the upper-left corner.
Click Color Picker and select a color from the system color picker. (When setting the text color, use only solid colors, not gradients.
To apply a gradient to text, break the text apart and convert the text to its component lines and fills.)
Set letter spacing, kerning, and character position
Letter spacing inserts a uniform amount of space between characters. Use letter spacing to adjust the spacing of selected characters or entire
blocks of text.
Kerning controls the spacing between pairs of characters. Many fonts have built-in kerning information. For example, A and V are often closer
together than A and D. Flash Professional provides horizontal tracking and kerning (for horizontal text) and vertical tracking and kerning (for
vertical text).
For vertical text, you can disable kerning by default in Flash Preferences. If you do this and leave the kerning option selected in the Property
inspector, kerning is applied to horizontal text only.
1. Using the Text tool , select one or more sentences, phrases, or text fields on the Stage.
2. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), set the following options:
To specify letter spacing (tracking and kerning), enter a value in the Letter Spacing field.
To use a font’s built-in kerning information, select Auto-Kern.
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