# Animating Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-text/209106>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 5, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-text/209106 "2006-12-05T23:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomyknoker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@tomyknoker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tomyknoker)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-text/209106/1 "2006-12-05T23:14:09Z")

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I have some text which I want to make look like it is being written on the page… Is the only way to do this to just use a mask that follows an invisible pen stroke manually?