![]() But what they omitted was that if you apply the break apart command to those text objects a second time then they are converted to filled shapes just like you would expect to happen in Flash when you break apart a text object. All clearly explained in the user’s guide. You have to love Adobe Acrobat.Īny way, the user’s guide shows that a text object can be selected and by applying the break apart command the text object is broken into individual text objects for each individual character. But my responsibility to people in our studio will be to help them come up to speed on TBS if we start using it for production work. Not a reflection on the TBS documentation folks as they have produced a great user’s guide and I’m learning a lot from actually reading it. Adding notes and comments electronically as I find things not as well explained as I think they should be or functionality that exists but isn’t discussed. Now you would love my copy of the TBS V3 Users Guide because I am annotating it as I do my evaluation. So I went through the new user’s guide and read up on this tool. I was asked by an FFM member about the Text tool. Internet forums have so much potentual for benefit and only occasionally are they minor sources of less fortunate conversations which we all learn to just ignore. It never interferes with my work schedule or projects and I get to meet and become aquainted with many interesting and famous people along the way. It is one of those things where as I learn, I feel obligated to offer help to others. And as always I will try to share my talent for explaining complex subjects. I will do my best to quickly come up to speed for our studio needs this tool to be effective for us. I’m seeing a real need for a strong support community because, like Flash, there are plenty of things to learn on top of the already daunting work of cartooning, film making, or animation work. I also like having Solo as a migration path although I’m far from convinced it is worth the price differential at this time. I’m hoping to be able to shift a lot of our production work to TBS because I believe it has come of age with this latest version. I am very new to this most recently improved version of TBS 3.0.1 and so far I am very pleased. And I plan to expand the number of TBS related threads at FFM as well. I am getting deeper and deeper into 3.0.1 and with my extensive background in using Flash I’m able to bring a new perspective to some of this forums discussions. Now that our studio is re-evaluating TBS I plan to become more involved here as well. As those are my favorite areas along with my blog articles. And also thanks for the kind words about the more application independent discussions on techniques, production and writing for animated cartoons. Plus good discussions on applications like Photoshop and After Effects for pre and post production. We have tried to establish a community of both professionals and amatuers who exchange help and ideas about digital animation, mostly 2D and certainly with a bias toward Flash but as you pointed out we have sections on all similar applications of a below $1000 per seat price point. There is certainly more there than the “title” might imply. Thanks for the plug, hopefully some of the community members will check out the FFM forums.
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