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Here's one method to outline and dropshadow text... of course, if you have DMX 2004 and the new Flash Xtra then it would be a heck of a lot quicker and less code to do it... plus, it'd do a nicer job... but if you don't, then this may interest you. Suggestions on optimizatins or additions welcome.

-- Outline and Dropshadow Text -- (c) 2006 by Josh Chunick -- please keep comments intact, -- otherwise use how you like -- place script in a moviescript -- Parameters: -- input - this can be a text member or a property list. -- if you use a property list then the format looks like this: -- [[property list], string] where the p property list is a list of text formatting properties in this format: -- eg. [[#font: "Arial", #fontSize: 24, #fontStyle: [#bold], #alignment: #center, #charSpacing 5], "This is my outline text."] -- lnSize - the size of the outline as an integer value. Not too useful beyond 2 or 3. -- knockout - boolean. Set to true to make the original text area transparent. -- insideColor - colour of text. -- outsideColor - colour of outline and dropshadow. -- dsDirection - integer - four possible values corresponding to the direction of the shadow. -- 1: top,left 2: top,right 3: bottom, right 4: bottom, left. -- dsAmount - integer - the amount of offset of the dropshadow. on outlineText (input, lnSize, knockout, insideColor, outsideColor, dsDirection, dsAmount) newMem = new(#text) newMem.boxType = #fixed newMem.topSpacing = 0 newMem.leftIndent = 0 Case input.ilk() of #member: newMem.media = input.media #list: newMem.wordWrap = False if input[1].getAProp(#font) <> VOID then newMem.font = input[1][#font] else newMem.font = "Arial" end if if input[1].getAProp(#fontSize) <> VOID then newMem.fontSize = input[1][#fontSize] else newMem.fontSize = 14 end if if input[1].getAProp(#fontStyle) <> VOID then newMem.fontStyle = input[1][#fontStyle] else newMem.fontStyle = [#plain] end if if input[1].getAProp(#alignment) <> VOID then newMem.alignment = input[1][#alignment] else newMem.alignment = #left end if if input[1].getAProp(#fixedLineSpace) <> VOID then newMem.fixedLineSpace = input[1][#fixedLineSpace] end if if input[1].getAProp(#charSpacing) <> VOID then newMem.charSpacing = input[1][#charSpacing] end if if input[1].getAProp(#antiAlias) <> VOID then newMem.antiAlias = input[1][#antiAlias] end if if input[1].getAProp(#antiAliasThreshold) <> VOID then newMem.antiAliasThreshold = input[1][#antiAliasThreshold] end if if input[1].getAProp(#kerning) <> VOID then newMem.kerning = input[1][#kerning] end if if input[1].getAProp(#kerningThreshold) <> VOID then newMem.kerningThreshold = input[1][#kerningThreshold] end if newMem.text = input[2] lnCount = newMem.line.count newW = 0 repeat with i = 1 to lnCount if newMem.charPosToLoc(newMem.line[1..i].char.count) > newW then newW = newMem.charPosToLoc(newMem.line[1..i].char.count + 1)[1] end if end repeat newMem.width = newW End Case newMem.width = newMem.width if voidP(lnSize) then lnSize = 1 if voidP(knockout) then knockout = 0 if voidP(insideColor) then insideColor = newMem.color if voidP(outsideColor) then outsideColor = newMem.color if voidP(dsDirection) then dsDirection = 0 if voidP(dsAmount) then dsAmount = 1 if voidP(dsDirection) then dsAmount = 0 end if newMem.leftIndent = lnSize newMem.topSpacing = lnSize newMem.height = newMem.height + lnSize newMem.width = newMem.width + lnSize if Not(voidP(dsDirection)) then -- 1: top,left 2: top,right 3: bottom,right 4: bottom,left Case dsDirection of 1: newMem.leftIndent = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.width = newMem.width + dsAmount + lnSize + 1 newMem.topSpacing = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.height = newMem.height + lnSize 2: newMem.rightIndent = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.width = newMem.width + dsAmount + lnSize + 1 newMem.topSpacing = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.height = newMem.height + lnSize 3: newMem.rightIndent = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.width = newMem.width + dsAmount + lnSize + 1 newMem.height = newMem.height + dsAmount + lnSize 4: newMem.leftIndent = dsAmount + lnSize newMem.width = newMem.width + dsAmount + lnSize + 1 newMem.height = newMem.height + dsAmount + lnSize End Case end if newMem.color = rgb(0,0,0) aImg = image(newMem.width, newMem.height, 8, #grayscale) aImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, aImg.rect, aImg.rect) alphaImg = aImg.duplicate() alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,0,lnSize,0), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,lnSize,lnSize,lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(0,lnSize,0,lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,lnSize,-lnSize,lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,0,-lnSize,0), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,-lnSize,-lnSize,-lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(0,-lnSize,0,-lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,-lnSize,lnSize,-lnSize), newMem.rect, [#maskImage: aImg]) newMem.color = outsideColor memImg = image(newMem.width, newMem.height, 32) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,0,lnSize,0), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,lnSize,lnSize,lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(0,lnSize,0,lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,lnSize,-lnSize,lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,0,-lnSize,0), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(-lnSize,-lnSize,-lnSize,-lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(0,-lnSize,0,-lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect + rect(lnSize,-lnSize,lnSize,-lnSize), newMem.rect,[#ink: 39, #maskImage: aImg]) if Not(voidP(dsDirection)) then -- 1: top,left 2: top,right 3: bottom,right 4: bottom,left Case dsDirection of 1: rectMod = rect(-dsAmount,-dsAmount,-dsAmount,-dsAmount) 2: rectMod = rect(dsAmount,-dsAmount,dsAmount,-dsAmount) 3: rectMod = rect(dsAmount,dsAmount,dsAmount,dsAmount) 4: rectMod = rect(-dsAmount,dsAmount,-dsAmount,dsAmount) End Case alphaImg.copyPixels(alphaImg,(newMem.rect + rectMod), (newMem.rect),[#ink: 39, #maskImage: alphaImg]) memImg.copyPixels(memImg,(newMem.rect + rectMod), (newMem.rect),[#ink: 39, #maskImage: alphaImg]) end if if knockout then newMem.color = rgb(255,255,255) alphaImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect, newMem.rect) else newMem.color = insideColor memImg.copyPixels(newMem.image, newMem.rect, newMem.rect) end if memImg.useAlpha = true memImg.setAlpha(alphaImg) memImg = memImg.trimWhiteSpace() if the runMode = "Author" then newMem.erase() return memImg end