# Masking Text Outlines **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 29, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053 "2003-07-29T19:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![norie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@norie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/norie)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/1 "2003-07-29T19:11:00Z")
why cant you mask text outlines?..Is there anyway around it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/2 "2003-07-29T20:37:52Z")
What do you mean text outlines? Is the text set to dynamic? If it is, you’ll need to embed the font in order to mask it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/3 "2003-07-29T20:46:13Z")
> _Originally posted by electrongeek_ > **… If it is, you’ll need to embed the font in order to mask it.** Nope, you don’t need to. 😛 [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30076](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30076) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/4 "2003-07-29T20:47:42Z")
ok sorry i didn’t explain myself…i should have known better. Ok say you make some regular static text…you break down that test and with the outlinie tool in flash…make an outline around the text…if you delete the fill all you have left is the outlines…well i can’t seem to be able to mask those lines ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/5 "2003-07-29T20:51:19Z")
kax, device fonts are fonts on the viewer’s machine. What if the textbox uses a font that isn’t on the viewer’s machine? Then what? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/6 "2003-07-29T20:56:33Z")
Ehmm… that’s a totally different situation. 😉 Obviously you’d have to embed the font, I just said that you can mask device fonts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/7 "2003-07-29T21:01:54Z")
haha they just ignore you that’s funny. Make sure your turning it into a MC first. I don’t think you can just mask a shape. All that outline thing is, is a shape. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/8 "2003-07-29T21:05:37Z")
yeah there are two types of shapes: a fill and a line…this is a line…i seem to have trouble w/masking lines sometimes…but i’ll try making it into an MC ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/9 "2003-07-29T21:06:11Z")
Sorry… I didn’t say anything about it because I have no idea why it isn’t working. 😛 … I ran a quick test and the mask worked just fine. :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/10 "2003-07-29T21:24:44Z")
norie, are those lines grouped by any chance? I know that when certain objects are grouped, you can’t mask them. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-outlines/27053/11 "2003-07-29T21:28:56Z")
> \*Originally posted by electrongeek \* > \*\*norie, are those lines grouped by any chance? I know that when certain objects are grouped, you can’t mask them. \*\* nope…completely broken