The Text Layout Framework is an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Adobe Flex® or Adobe Flash Professional and is included in Flex 4, code named "Gumbo" . Developers can use or extend existing components, or use the framework to create their own text components.
See the Text Layout Framework Technology Center and the online rich text editor on Adobe Labs.
The Text Layout Framework and source are bundled with the Flex 4 SDK. See the Flex SDK page .
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The Text Layout Framework and the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 bring some amazing new capabilities to the Flash Platform, including:
The 2.0 version of the Text Layout Framework is under development, and has several exciting new features, including: