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It seems that anytime I include text into my Flash file in CS5, I am alerted that the text layout has been exported to an external file,  at which point it will not be imported correctly with any animation in After Effects.  I've read that this has something to do with the new CS5 TLF mode.
What is the work around with this?  All other versions of Flash imports my swfs flashlessly, why is CS5 so difficult to?
I posted this on the Flash forums six months ago, and the post was completely ignored.  I even bumped it up a couple times.  I'm going to see if maybe the AE forums may have an idea about this.

I'm not too savvy on TLF but Adobe implemented it as an option to allow multi-column layouts in Flash which would be compatible
better with InDesign workflows (Import/Export).
What you can do is make sure your text is set to Classic Text for all of your text fields unless you have a need to use TLF.
But I'm sure someone else will chime in with the correct response to this issue as there are times when you cannot do without TLF and you will still want to export to AE.

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