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Date Archives → 11/05/2010

Hyphenation in ActionScript

posted in general on 11/05/2010 7 Comments by Gregor Aisch

There are a lot of nice text features in the new flash text layout framework but obviosly there is still one important feature missing: Hyphenation. Until today, there is no native hyphenation support in the flashplayer. I decided to fill this gap by porting the Hyphenator.js library by Mathias Nater to ActionScript. In this post I’ll demonstrate text hyphenation in flash. Continue reading →

My name is Gregor Aisch and here I write mostly about technical issues in information visualization.

I hold a B.Sc. in Computational Visualistics and work as a freelance visualization architect.

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