Text-Osterone Tutorial
Text-Osterone by Vertical Moon is an application for creating Flash animated text effects. This guide shows how to easily embed those animated text .swf effects in your RapidWeaver project.
Text-Osterone by Vertical Moon is an application for creating Flash animated text effects. This guide shows how to easily embed those animated text .swf effects in your RapidWeaver project.
Create Text Effect
Create your animated text effect in Text-Osterone, then select 'Publish Settings ...' in the 'File' menu:
A. Tick Flash & HTML.
B. Name your files.
C. Publish.
Add Flash File to Assets
Open the 'Page Inspector' for the RapidWeaver page you are adding the text effect to:
A. Select 'Assets' tab.
B. Add your .swf file.
Get HTML Code
Open your .HTML file in Safari, then view the source (View > View Source).
A. Copy code from
<OBJECT ....>' to '</OBJECT>
Paste HTML Code into Rapidweaver
Paste the copied HTML code into an HTML page, or any Styled Text type area with 'Ignore Formatting' applied to the code:
A. Prefix the name of your .swf file with 'assets/' (i.e. assets/yourfile.swf) in BOTH areas shown.
Preview your Masterpiece!


