If you use Adobe Create Suite 5 and do a lot of re-purposing from print to Flash, you may find these tips of interest:

Tip 1

It is now possible to export an InDesign CS5 file as a Flash authoring File (FLA). However, if you choose Flash CS 5′s new “Flash TLF Text” font format in the export settings, you may be disappointed with the results.

Although TLF gives you great new font-formatting abilities in Flash, exporting from InDesign with that setting seems to produce poor letter-spacing, particularly with small text.

Instead, select “Text: Flash Classic Text” when you export from InDesign to Flash. You can always convert the text to TLF inside of Flash.

Tip 2

Another common print-to-Flash workflow is to import an Illustrator (AI) file directly into Flash. In both CS 4 and 5, this works pretty well, except that, once again, small text may be distorted by erratic letter-spacing.

To fix this, Select All in your Illustrator file and scale everything up about 200-300% (you may also need to resize the art board). Then import that scaled up AI file into Flash. Hey presto! No more bad letter-spacing.