Adobe Labs releases the beta of Text Layout Framework

Adobe Labs has released the beta of Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5. The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Flash or Flex.

Together with the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5, the Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web, including support for:

Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.
Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images
Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography
Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing
Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.

It appears that the new version of Flex “GUMBO” will already include the Layout Framework

For more info and examples visit Adobe Labs

The Adobe Labs releases the beta of Text Layout Framework by David Gamez, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Mexico License.

Posted by swfgeek @ 4 December 2008 0 comments

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