text taking on a shape

[sue]

Hello, I am a newbie to Flash. Is there a way to make a word take on a
shape. I don't mean text filling a text box shape or animate the
shape of text. For example let's say I have the word, "fish", is
there a way to make the whole word look like the outline of a fish?

Thank you in advance :)
-sue

[Nex]

On 28 Sep 2004 15:35:56 -0700, [email]petitesew@yahoo.com[/email] (sue) wrote:

>Hello, I am a newbie to Flash. Is there a way to make a word take on a
>shape. I don't mean text filling a text box shape or animate the
>shape of text. For example let's say I have the word, "fish", is
>there a way to make the whole word look like the outline of a fish?
>
>Thank you in advance :)
>-sue

well you could fiddle with the word in illustrator or freehand after
making it outlined (a vector object, not text anymore) but that's
kinda hard..

easiest way i can think is to make a mask in the shape of a fish and
lay that over your word in flash. remember that masks won't work on
dynamic text unless the text is embedded (i think)

Nex

[sue]

Nex <yeahright@nottelling.com> wrote in message news:<86vjl01id9k9sqbqhn702k02q28bsj3bss@4ax.com>. ..

> On 28 Sep 2004 15:35:56 -0700, [email]petitesew@yahoo.com[/email] (sue) wrote:
>

> >Hello, I am a newbie to Flash. Is there a way to make a word take on a
> >shape. I don't mean text filling a text box shape or animate the
> >shape of text. For example let's say I have the word, "fish", is
> >there a way to make the whole word look like the outline of a fish?
> >
> >Thank you in advance :)
> >-sue

>
> well you could fiddle with the word in illustrator or freehand after
> making it outlined (a vector object, not text anymore) but that's
> kinda hard..
>
> easiest way i can think is to make a mask in the shape of a fish and
> lay that over your word in flash. remember that masks won't work on
> dynamic text unless the text is embedded (i think)
>
> Nex

Hmmm...I guess I'll have to learn another program. Thank you for the
mask suggestion. It kind of cuts off some of the letter shapes, not
quite the effect I was going for but it is a solution of sorts :)
Also thank you for the reminder about the dynamic text.

-sue