Macromedia maintains a list of bugs a were fixed in 8.5 . The information on this page comes from my own experience, or reports in forums and e-mail that I can reproduce in the current version of Director. The platform tested on, not necessarily the only platform it happens on. Under Windows 2000 only, most of the time, the text in fields formatted to have a font of Arial 14, displays on stage with lines wrapped at random places. Occurs in authoring and projector.
Text looks fine when viewing cast member but messed up on stage in sprite.
The same movie will display fine under other OS's. Workaround from Eric Delente is to use some other font or a point size of Arial 12. Submitted by Fabien Calais and Scott Runkel . Retread from 8. Contrary to the doc, on Windows systems the freeblock does not return the largest chunk of contiguous memory.