FLASH: Flash 5 - wish for styles

[Jonathan Mao]

It would be great to implement "Styles" like style sheets in QuarkXPress etc..


For example:

1. Create a text symbol, set it's font, size, colour etc

2. create a 'style' based on that symbol (or from scratch)

3. voila!


If the designer then decides to change fonts, simple modify the 

'style' and any symbols based on that 'style' are automatically 

updated. This would work well when Flash supports the ability to:

1. warn when an FLA is opened when a font isn't in memory. Allowing 

the user to update/replace with a certain font and whether or not to 

update any styles that use that font.

2. if you add a font to memory after an FLA has been opened, the 

Flash application becomes aware of this an updates it's font menu. - 

like XPress, Illustrator...


Thanks for listening.


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