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- deconstruct
Anyone ever figured out how to do font spacing in flash mx in a dynamic text field, doesnt support it in HTML formating...... any ideas?
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- unknown0
If you're only dealing with short strings you could lay it out letter by letter (god help you) otherwise, I think you have to put up with it.
- frankbb0
as in kerning ??
- unknown0
yes... i guess
- frankbb0
i'll have a look, mine have been messing up recently..
hmm
- deconstruct0
its not small text amounts...... and no i dont fancy doing each letter separately ;)....... i think im going to just open the font in fontographer and change the kerning on the font like that, seeing as flash cant handle the complexities of font spacing..... good grief
- unknown0
or you could store what with you want each character takes up... and shift a new text area each time... no!!! forget that...!
- frankbb0
unfortunately you don't get the option (had a look in the errata version as well - dictionary)
if you don't want to make you own custom kerning then I did have some script somewhere from flash 5 that did just what you wanted, but unfortunately you would have to spend a bout a week on tring to get it right
- sexypixel0
adjusting the kerning in fontographer is the best way.
- frankbb0
just had a thought...
if you found out the width of each letter you could use some script to check the paragraph you want then duplicate a MC add the letter, and using the letter width before it add it to the correct position. no need to check it then..
hmm.. sack that.. if you have a space it won't work..
just a thought
- unfittoprint0
the next similar thing is to use substr() together with join() to insert space(s) between letters.
- frankbb0
but then you might get to big a space in between letters.
- deconstruct0
im sticking with fontographer, does the trick without too much messing around, thanks