See the Postscript Type 1 End of Support help article for more details.

If a FLA file containing TLF Text, previously saved with an older version of Animate, is opened with Animate, then TLF is converted to Classic Text.

TLF text allows greater control of text than the previous text engine, now called Classic text.

These containers are called threaded or linked text containers.

This support is important for embedding English words or Arabic numerals within ArabicHebrew text, for example.

A point text containers size depends solely on the text it contains.

An area text containers size is independent of the amount of text it contains.

To change a point text container to area text, resize it with the selection tool or double-click the small circle at the bottom-right corner of the container bounding box.

When working with TLF text, PostScript fonts are not available in the Text Font menu.

If you apply a PostScript Type 1 font to a TLF text object using one of the other font menus, Animate substitutes the sans device font instead.

When working with Classic text, all installed PostScript fonts are available in the Font menus.

If this library is not already present on the playback computer, Flash Player automatically downloads it.

For more information about the library, see Publishing SWF files with TLF text.

To create a mask with text, create the mask with ActionScript 3.0 or use Classic text for the mask.

See Masking display objects in the ActionScript 3.0 Developers Guide.

To see the effect of anti-aliasing settings, use the Control Test command or the File Publish command.

For more information, see Applying cascading style sheets in the ActionScript 3.0 Developers Guide.

These APIs enable more features like text decoration, in-line images, the ability to read HTML and TLFMarkup languages, and others useful for creating dynamic content.

However, because the text engines are different in their capabilities, some formatting may be slightly different, including letter spacing and line spacing.

Inspect the text carefully and reapply any settings that have been changed or lost.

Because the library is separate from your published SWF file, the SWF file size is minimized.

At runtime, after you have uploaded your published SWF file to a web server, the library is provided in the following ways.

If the SWF file is not the first to use TLF text on that computer, the computer already has a local copy of the library in its Flash Player cache.

Flash Text Files Resolume 5