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gradientlabs
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August 8, 2009
Question

Outline/Stroke on Text?

  • August 8, 2009
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Can the TLF produce a stroke on letters? For example, a white fill and a black stroke.

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Alexander_Chingarev
Known Participant
November 17, 2010

Another possibility is to create "outlined" font. It will work smoother then masking, but creating the font is not a fast process.

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ADBrad01
Participant
November 17, 2010

Thanks for all of this but we are not going to do it, too labor intensive.

Hopefully in the future Adobe will allow ActionScript to stroke glyphs

since you are the font experts.

Brad

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ADBrad01
Participant
November 6, 2009

I work in the print business for Avery, the largest label maker in the world.

We would like to create text with strokes because it gives a richer appearance for things like company titles or name on business cards,

better looking t-shirt text, nicer titles on greeting cards, etc.

I am certain many other organizations would like to be able to apply a stoke color to glyphs.

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GordonSmith
Participating Frequently
November 6, 2009

Unfortuantely, the low-level text-rendering APIs in the Flash Player don't support stroking glyph outlines. But the Player team is considering adding this for a future release. In the meantime, I think you would have to look at using things like the player's bitmap filters to accomplish this, and may not be as crisp as you need.

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team

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ADBrad01
Participant
November 7, 2009

Hello Gordon,

I appreciate what Adobe has accomplished in Flex.

End users always want more, if this is possible to add stroke glyph

outlines it will make text even cooler.

Brad

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Adobe Employee
robin_briggs
Adobe Employee
August 10, 2009

No, I'm sorry. TLF is based on flash.text.engine, which can do text fill, but cannot do a separate text stroke. This is on the list of Flash Player requested features, though. Do you want it as a special effect? How do you intend to use this? Any information we have on specifically what folks are trying to do is helpful.

Thanks!

- robin

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gradientlabsAuthor
Participant
August 10, 2009

It's strange that this would not have been built into the text engine.

We have an app (for Facebook) that allows a user to create text elements and place them over photos, among other things. It's mostly about wanting to have the technique available for users. This will help with readability, and for getting that lolcat look.

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