Horizontal Text Example
//setting up variables
$Xposition = 50;
$Yposition = 50;
$Zposition = 0;
$Obj_depth = 1;
$char = THIS IS THE TEXT;
// begin swf
swf_pushmatrix ();
$firstid = swf_nextid ();
swf_definefont ($firstid, "Mod");
swf_fontsize (10);
$secondid = swf_nextid ();
swf_definetext ($secondid, $char, 1);
swf_translate ($Xposition, $Yposition, Zposition);
swf_placeobject ($secondid, $Obj_depth);
swf_popmatrix ();
swf_definerect