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April 23, 2010
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Text Layout Framework in the wild!

  • April 23, 2010
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I just wanted to post this link to the site I've just built using the TLF. After many hours of debugging and posting to this forum it is finally live and I just wanted to feedback to everyone who helped me along the way and say thanks.

http://www.signthestripes.co.uk

One of the main problems I had with this project was threading all of the links together. One of the biggest performance issues we found with the TLF was that when you have a format on a link and more than 10 links in a paragraph it struggled to re-draw the paragraph and apply the format. This was a big issue and I hope it's something they fix in the next release.

See this thread for more details on this problem : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/598789?tstart=0

I solved this problem by detecting when a name in the flow started on a new line and then created a new paragraph. The result is that there are never more than 5 links in one paragraph which solved the performance hit : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/601833?tstart=0

and this is the thread that helped me find the position of an individual name within its container : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/606608?tstart=0

There was also an issue with links in a row converting to one link ... I think this was to do with links without a HREF : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/598885?tstart=0

Here's more of the posts that relate to this project and others : http://forums.adobe.com/people/Poobeard?view=discussions

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Adobe Employee
April 27, 2010

That's quite a shirt.  Thanks for sharing.

Richard