exporting animated gif text disappears

[glasshopper]

Hello.

Using Flash Professional 8.0 - I created a movie to be exported as an animated gif - however when I export the gif - the text fields which export fine as .swf are missing in the .gif format. Is this a known bug or can animated gifs not contain text - which I imagine to be very limiting.

The movie is very simple, four layers - two graphic, two text, no actionscript - all other elements of the movie display in the gif except for the text fields!

There must be a simple answer to this ... thanks for looking.

[glasshopper]

39 views so far and not one hint of advice / or indication of what the problem could be ... this should be a newbie question because it is basic, maybe I have posted in the wrong forum!

If flash cannot export animated gifs with text fields then someone must have encountered it before ... I googled this and spent some time unsuccessfully looking for an answer before posting here.

I guess some of you are thinking why not just embed flash - well this is the only element of flash that would be in the site and I do not feel like embedding flash just for this and forcing a user to download the flash player if they do not have it / although I could display a static image if they do not have flash I spose.

Come on ASdotORG forum users - for such a great site there must be someone who has come across this ... on another note - the animated gif is 2kb whilst the flash is 5kb so I wanna use the gif - but once the text is inside the gif this will make a size difference - if I ever get to that stage.

Might try importing the text from illustrator - see if that fixes it - converting the text to symbols did not make a difference.

[glasshopper]

... the solution is to not embed text in animated gifs from FLASH - and not to use the Flash publish to create the gif. Fireworks is probably a better tool / maybe even Photoshop.

If you instead choose File>Export Movie you can export the movie with the text - buit it looks hairy and crap so instead I will use a static image or flash or another tool to make the animation.

Still no posts in response to this ...!
Thnx. Goodbye.

[glasshopper]

... animated gifs.

If you need to create an animated gif do not use Flash. ImageReady created a photoshop quality gif and the optimised format is smaller than anything Flash could offer - oh and the missing text which was the issue - it looks great - anti aliased as intended within photoshop.

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