Text Layout Framework

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/

Text Layout Framework has just been released and available to testout at Adobe Lab.
The sample in the page shows what flash player 10 can do with text and it’s quite amazing work that Adobe did. Prior to flash player 10, managing text in flash content had been quite work and literally there was not fine defining tool. These days I got more interested in flash after flash player 10 was released.

What languages does the Text Layout Framework support?
The Text Layout Framework supports over 30 writing scripts, including: Latin (English, Spanish, French, German, Vietnamese etc.), Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Tifinagh, Yi, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Deseret, Shavian, Vai, Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Han ideographs and Kana (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Hangul Johab (Korean), Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Thaana, and Tibetan.

That’s supported language. However, I am not quite sure how well the framework would work with 2bytes language such as Korean or Japanese language. As those language font files are hugh. I mean really *huge*. That’s something that has been a big issue in those countries with the flash player and has not been a really good solution as far as I understand. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

Other than that, Text Layout Framework(TLF) looks really really good! 🙂