Using Text and Components in Flash CS3


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Text and its presentation is an essential element of most web sites and interactive applications. Adobe Flash Professional CS3 can be used to create titles, labels, and other text content that appears by default, as well as text that is used to create dynamic interactivity on a Flash form or web page. This course provides an introduction for creating text in Flash Professional CS3. It outlines the considerations for using fonts and demonstrates how to create the different types of text fields. The basic components used to build web forms are explained and demonstrated, providing the learner with an introduction to creating forms in Flash.

Target Audience
In-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any experience with the specific product.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation; experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Using Text and Components in Flash CS3

  • recognize how to create and modify static text in Flash CS3
  • distinguish between static, dynamic, and input text
  • recognize how to convert text to a vector in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to set device fonts in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to substitute fonts in Flash CS3
  • use text and fonts in a given scenario in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to create dynamic text and input fields in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to embed a font in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to create and share a font symbol in Flash CS3
  • add and modify a dynamic text field, in a given scenario, in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to add and modify components in Flash CS3
  • recognize which Flash user interface components to use in a given scenario
  • use components to build a form in a given scenario
  • Course Number:
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