# Why wont my masks work?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 12, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768 "2004-08-12T12:12:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fidelity88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@Fidelity88](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Fidelity88)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768/1 "2004-08-12T12:12:08Z")

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Today I was working on some masks, I put up a box with a gradient in it and on the layer above I put some text and then right clicked it and and clicked mask. Anyway in the workspace the mask worked but when I previewed the movie it only shows the box. What is this?  
Thanks  
Fidelity

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**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:** [August 12, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768/2 "2004-08-12T13:24:47Z")

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I know that I have run into that problem before but I can’t remember what caused that or what fixed it… You might be able to fix this by breaking apart your text (Ctrl - B). I dunno, what you described doesn’t happen when I do it. :😁:

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**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:** [August 12, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768/3 "2004-08-12T20:13:14Z")

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did you try to embed the fonts

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**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:** [August 14, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768/4 "2004-08-14T01:21:34Z")

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Ok what exactly do you mean by embed the font? Sorry Im a Newbie ☹  
Thanks  
Fidelity

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**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:** [August 14, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-my-masks-work/60768/5 "2004-08-14T06:09:46Z")

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Select your textfield, in the properties window hit the “character” button and select one of the options.  
Or have a look for setMask()…

scotty(-: