# Text effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/163101>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 19, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/163101 "2005-09-19T20:50:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![essentialDF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e95f7d/32.png) [@essentialDF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/essentialDF)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/163101/1 "2005-09-19T20:50:47Z")

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anyone know the best way to animate this text in flash? I want it to appear like its ‘rolling’. Does flash have a tool to distort text the same way you can in illustrator (wave, arc, bulge etc.)

thanks  
edf