From: CowAttack on
In Flash 8, I created a mask layer that made certain areas of dynamic text
visible. However, in CS3 when I try to do this, the dynamic text disappears
altogether. I created a new file to see if it was something I was doing or if
every time I mask layer appears over top of dynamic text it disappears. Turns
out it's the latter. Any idea how to work around this or why a mask would make
dynamic/input text disappear but not static?

From: ooba on
Trace out the level of the layers for the static text, the dynamic text and the mask. Your dynamic text layer may be above the mask layer.
From: NedWebs on
Dynamic text (both types) under masks need to have the fonts embedded in them.
I don't know why it's made this way, but it is.

Select one of the dynamic text fields and then click the Embed... button in
the properties panel and select the character sets you know will be involved in
that field.


From: CowAttack on
Awesome. The embedding worked. Thanks a bunch; I banged my head against this long enough and am glad to move past it.