Adobe released a powerful new text engine in Flash Player 10 called Text Layout Framework (TLF). At the time, there was no tooling support in Flash Professional to take advantage of it. In Flash CS5, however, there’s full support for easily doing things such as linked containers, multicolumn text, exotic ligatures, and enhanced support for languages such as Arabic and Japanese. Let’s take a tour of some of these new features.

To use that engine :
Create new ActionScript 3.0 Flash Document because the TLF is written entirely in ActionScript 3.
Select the Text tool (T) and drag out a new text field that fills the top half of the Stage. At the top of the Properties panel you’ll notice a pull-down menu that by default is set to TLF Text. If you don’t want to use the new text engine you can change this to Classic Text, which is the name for the old text engine. There’s some additional file size and overhead with using TLF, so if you need simple text, it’s better to stick to classic text.

Arabic Text

To use Arabic change the font to Adobe Arabic . Select Show Right-to-Left Options from the flyout menu at the top of the Properties panel. Now in the Paragraph section, you can change the Direction property to Right to Left.

Further Information

Go to Adobe Text Layout Framework Technology Center for features and tutorials.