Animating Text / Type

I'm tying to animate a line of text / type in Director and
I'm not sure what is the best way to go about it .
Can someone confirm that I cannot animate type with Director
the same way I can in Flash? I know I can make it move and so on,
but I want my type to shrink in size as it's animation.
I know I could make a bitmap of the piece of text, but I'd
rather avoid that if at all possible. I thought about drawing the
piece of text in the vector drawing tool with Director, but I find
that quite difficult. Adobe Illustrator is easier for that, so I
drew my piece of text with Illustrator, but I'm having trouble
importing to Director.
Cananyone suggest anything?

Yes, animating text in Director is very different from
animating text in
Flash. Director's sprites follow very different rules than
Flash's
symbols. Each of Director's sprite types follow unique rules.
Text and field sprites have a one to one relationship with
the
originating member. If you alter the sprite, you alter the
member. This
is unique to these sprite types. Consequently, you can't zoom
a text or
field sprite. You can change the rect of the member, but this
won't
change the size of the type inside the member, or sprite.
The most common methods for animating text are to use a
bitmap version
or to use Flash. Since Flash text is a vector, it will be a
smaller file
size, and it will scale better.
If you create art in illustrator, you can save that file out
as an .swf
or import it into Photoshop and save it as a transparent
.png.
Rob
Rob Dillon
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.ddg-designs.com
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