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Create animations using the Timeline

Last updated 6/15/2014

Changing Other Text Properties

Like any other element in Animate, you probably don’t expect your text to be static all the time. Fortunately for you, the

designer, you don’t have to learn new tools to make your text dance around the screen. The X/Y Position properties

determine where your text appears, and the W/HSize properties determine the dimensions of the text box. Keep in

mind that the Size properties change the size of the text box, but they don’t change the size of the letters. To change the

size of the letters, you can use the font-size properties or the Scale properties. Sometimes you'll want the size of your

text to change depending on the size of the browser window. If that's the case, use % (percentage) for the Text Properties

Unit. As with drawings and photos, you can create property keyframes in the timeline to make text properties change

over time.

Remember those fold, spindle, and mutilate tools? You can use the Transform properties on text, too. Go ahead and

ate or skew blocks of text for special effects as you add or remove them from the web page. Use the Scale properties

to make the text box and the text inside bigger or smaller. Scale works on text the same way it works on a JPEG image:

Dial in a percentage, and everything grows or shrinks. Keep in mind that text gets a bit blurry when it is enlarged using

the Scale property.

Clipping Text Around the Edges

As with other graphic elements on the stage, you can use Clip properties to hide the edges of a text box. It’s a lot like

cropping the edges of photograph. Suppose you want animate a text box so that at first only a pinpoint in the middle is

visible, then it grows to display an entire block of text. Select your text and then look near the bottom of the Properties

panel. Click the triangle button to expand the Clip subpanel. In the upper-right corner of the subpanel, click the button

to turn on clipping. Edge Animate provides four controls that represent the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the

element (Figure 7). Type or scrub in values in pixels (px).

As you make changes, you see the effect they have on your text box. Want to remove clip properties after you’ve applied

em? J

ust right-click (Control-click) the clipped element and choose Remove Clip from the shortcut menu.

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