[flashpro] text outlines

[_chris kent]

Umm... How is it that my solution is a mess and yours is so simple?  It's
the same idea.  I'm just centering the text and playing with font size,
instead of pixel placement.  If you already have a body of text and/or a
text field/ area you are bringing text into, it would be easy to have it set
to center justified.  It's simple and not really a mess.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunther Konig [mailto:nitchcock at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:37 PM
To: Mailing list for professional Flash designers and developers
Subject: Re: [flashpro] text outlines

I probably don't get it right, but I think your solution doesn't really
work... maybe for individual letters but that'd still be a mess.

The obvious solution (and I guess Jason, and probably anyone on the list,
already knew it) is to duplicate the same text few times assigning to it the
color of the outline, and then moving these duplicates 1px (or more)
horizontally and/or vertically.

On 4/13/05, _chris kent <chris at dualstudios.com> wrote:
> 
> An easy work around that you can do, is attach the same text behind 
> the text you are working with - centered together and make the font 
> size behind slightly larger, creating an "outline" effect.
> 
> Just an idea.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Van Pelt [mailto:jvanpelt at integralpro.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: Mailing list for professional Flash designers and developers
> Subject: [flashpro] text outlines
> 
> Hi there,
> Does anyone know if there's an _easy_ way to to create graphical font 
> outlines around text with AS, similar to if you were to break apart a 
> text block on the stage and use the ink bottle tool to outline it?
> 
> It's got to be dynamic text, so...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> j.vanpelt
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