Developer Evangelist Paul Trani applies CSS styling to TLF (Text Layout Framework), showcasing the rich design flexibility of ActionScript coding for Flash Professional CS5.5 projects.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the Spark control properties and the elements of the Text Layout Framework.

With the introduction of the Text Layout Framework (TLF), Flash can now handle even the most complex text layouts. In this tutorial, Paul Trani takes you through creating multicolumn TLF text while highlighting new functionality in Flash Pro CS5.5, such as the new tab ruler, which you can use to add gutters and custom tabs to your TLF text.

Spry is a JavaScript and XML based framework that you can use to easily create drop-down menus, collapsible panels, and other rich interactive experiences in web design. Dreamweaver comes with many Spry components that you can easily drop into your pages without writing code. In this video you’ll learn how to insert and customize an “accordion” Spry widget that expands and collapses sections of text in the “Menu” page of this project.

Spark components by default use the new Text Layout Framework (TLF) engine and require CFF embedded fonts. Renaun Erickson demonstrates how to embed fonts for both TLF and non-TLF based components.

Join trainer Paul Trani as he demonstrates some of the new text layout features in Flash Professional CS5.

Use the Text tool to create text with the Text Layout Framework (TLF). Adjust a wide range of text settings, such as casing, justification, padding, and alignment in the Property inspector.

Flash CS5 introduces a new text layout engine, the Text Layout Framework (TLF), which enables highly flexible and customizable text display. Set up a document to use the TLF engine. Learn about the three different types of TLF text.

Learn how the Text Layout Framework lets you finely control text properties, flow text across multiple containers, and work with vertical, right-to-left, and multi-language text.

Learn about the Text Layout Framework (TLF), which delivers multilingual, print-quality typography for the web. See the new typographic capabilities inside Flash Professional that were inspired by InDesign and hear about future plans for rich text.