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Jump directly to font names in Flash
Authored by: ivanjs on Dec 23, '03 10:23:46AM

Actually, PhotoShop has one more little font trick I wish EVERY app would adapt.

Type some text in PhotoShop and highlight the text (drag across it). Now put your cursor in the font name field and highlight the name of the font. To change the font without opening the font menu, use the up/down cursor keys to change the font of the highlighted text. A great way to try out different fonts until you get the one you want.

Other PhotoShop tricks-
To change the spacing between letters (kerning/tracking), highlight the text (or put your cursor between 2 letters you want to spread apart) and OPTION-RIGHT or OPTION-LEFT cursor to spread apart or bring together respectively. COMMAND-OPTION-RIGHT or -LEFT spreads them apart/brings them together faster.

To change the size of the text quickly, highlight the text you want to change, then hold COMMAND-OPTION-SHIFT and hit the '>' symbol to increase and the '<' to decrease the size. To resize in smaller increments, only use COMMAND-SHIFT '>' or COMMAND-SHIFT '<'

John
http://homepage.mac.com/johnselvia/

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Jump directly to font names in Flash
Authored by: osxpounder on Dec 27, '03 02:20:00PM

Actually, the first Photoshop trick you mentioned also works in Flash MX for Windows -- haven't tried it on my Apple, yet, but I have grown accustomed to this font-selection behavior in any app -- the ones that don't do this are the exceptions, not the rule, in my experience.

In Flash, if you type some text, then highlight it, you can use the arrow keys to scroll through the font choices, and each font choice your keys select will be applied to the *highlighted* text on the Flash stage.

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