.swfgeek » text layout framework http://www.swfgeek.net My Flash Wanderings Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/mx/ Adobe Labs releases the beta of Text Layout Framework http://www.swfgeek.net/2008/12/04/adobe-labs-releases-the-beta-of-text-layout-framework/ http://www.swfgeek.net/2008/12/04/adobe-labs-releases-the-beta-of-text-layout-framework/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:30:35 +0000 swfgeek http://www.swfgeek.net/?p=262

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
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