Mac font problems

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The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “Archive Utility.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program on Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well.

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Scripted Typewriter Effect 2

Credit for this has to go Daniel Skovli and Jesse Stratford for there work on the original Scripted Typewriter Effect. Their’s is a great place to start, and most of this tutorial uses the same variables as their’s. The difference between their method and this one is that this method doesn’t rely on the timeline. So rather than make the playhead jump around to different scripts, I’m going to type out text using only one frame and a typing speed that can be adjusted by simply changing one number. The biggest advantage of this method is that the speed of the typing is regulated by a variable that can be changed to within milliseconds. Continue reading “Scripted Typewriter Effect 2”