# Text manipulation is still very limited :(

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-manipulation-is-still-very-limited/211148>\
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**Created:** [December 27, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-manipulation-is-still-very-limited/211148 "2006-12-27T22:13:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-manipulation-is-still-very-limited/211148/1 "2006-12-27T22:13:37Z")

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Please let me know if I have missed something, but from what I can see so far, Flash 8 is still very limited in the ways in which you can manipulate text. Features that have been in Adobe Illustrator for over a decade are still missing from Flash. You work with text as much in Flash as you do in Illustrator, so this feature is sorely missing. Things like text along a path, changing text to objects, etc. Note the attached picture. I often try to think outside the box - literally, and so often find myself working with curves. Text + curves is not very fun in Flash. So I have to manipulate each character by hand. Ugh.

If anyone knows of a better way to do this, please inform the world by posting here. Thanks!