Instructions have Illustrator users to create a Sequence animation by choosing the Release to Layers command from the Layers palette. We are told that there is no Drop or Trail feature in Illustrator, but we are not instructed as to how to otherwise make the animation work correctly.

I, for one, am very interested in getting this to work, and would welcome further assistance from Sandee Cohen. Many thanks!

Neat trick, but for Illustrator users, You must convert type to outlines before Releasing to Layers will work. And then, you need to group words after 'outlining' or you'll get a neat effect of every letter appearing.

The Illustrator instructions missed steps. Taking the text on path and releasing to layers does nothing. I have never used that feature before so I wasn't sure what it was supposed to do. The only way I could get more layers was to convert the path to curvers. But when you do that, you have each letter on it's own layer and you do NOT get the same effect you get with Freehand when you export that to SWF. I manually moved the letter groupings to the same layers but the effect was dismal. I have been having a hecking of a time learning Flash and I thought this article would help me out! Guess I better dust off my Freehand V8.1!