# Dynamic Text boxes disappearing

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-boxes-disappearing/249419
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-boxes-disappearing/249419 "2008-01-18T15:00:27Z")
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### Author: ![TheFreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TheFreak](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheFreak)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-boxes-disappearing/249419/1 "2008-01-18T15:00:27Z")

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Has anyone ever encountered this problem before? I have 3 dynamic text boxes in a movie. They all run off the same variable. One of the text boxes displays fine when published and printed. The other 2 disappear when printed or published. If I switch the disappearing text boxes to static, they appear just fine, however static text boxes will not work for these purposes. I have searched through all my code and I cannot find anything that would lead this to happen, especially considering that one of them works perfectly.

A little background on the project. It is an advertising web application. The end user is able to customize their own newspaper ads from a bunch of premade templates. They enter their info into the text fields, drag and drop a graphic or two and hit print. They have 2 options when printing, print 1 to a page or 2. The print 1 up dynamic text field displays fine. Behind the background (so it cannot be seen) exists the 2 up movie clip. Inside it are two exact duplicates of the print 1 up movieclip, just rotated and scaled so they will fit on one 8.5x11 piece of paper. Both of these have a dynamic text box (the copyright text) that disappears when printed or published to SWF. Rather than having to switch the copyright date on every newspaper ad section, I set it within the left navigation using the simple hardcode:

```auto
_root.copyright = "2008 ..."

```

This way it only needs to be set in one place per year very simply. I do not understand how the exact same symbol can display fine one way and not at all in another instance of that same symbol. Is this a flash bug or is there something I may have missed?