To expand or contract a shape, select it (Web site developers)
To expand or contract a shape, select it and choose Modify.Shape. Expand Fill. The Expand Fill dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 4-14. Type a number in the Distance text box, using the units that you have set for the entire movie. By default, movies are measured in pixels. (See the section in Chapter 3 on drawing precisely for the details on setting movie units.) To expand a shape, select the Expand radio button. To contract a shape, select the Inset radio button. Then click OK. Softening edges Softening edges is another shape-modification tool. You can soften edges of a shape to get a graphic to look like you created it in a bitmap image editor, such as Photoshop. Figure 4-15 shows some text before and after its edges are softened. Note that adding softened edges can increase your file size. You can create this effect by breaking apart the text twice before softening the edges. We discuss breaking apart objects later in this chapter; Chapter 5 explains more specifically about breaking apart text into editable shapes. To soften edges, select the object or objects and choose Modify.Shape. Soften Fill Edges. Flash opens the Soften Fill Edges dialog box, as shown in Figure 4-16. Figure 4-15: Soften the edges of objects to create cool effects. Figure 4-14: The Expand Fill dialog box. 94 Part II: 1,000 Pictures and 1,000 Words
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