I just encountered the same problem while opening a flash CS4 file in CS5. All the work I had done setting bulleted type was undone. There doesn't seem to be any way to set bulletted type in classic text mode now. A bit of a bummer.

Same here. I just found out about this lovely issue today.

I hope they fix it, but now that Adobe pretty much as a monopoly on the whole creative suite of software applications I am not holding my breath. Once a company has a monopoly sure they will make improvements, but by no means are they in a big hurry to do so.

It would be nice if Classic Text IDE text editing even had BASIC typesetting features like tabs/margins, etc.

Trying to set and control type in Flash is really crummy compared to any other Adobe product and I know it goes back to Macromedia days.

Here's a workaround.

/***********************************************************
FixTextIndent is a class with static methods that
provides a workaround for the Flash CS5 text formatting
bug.  The Flash CS5 IDE will not remember the text
indent setting for either static or dynamic text fields.
We can set the indent in Actionscript for dynamic fields,
so to use this class, convert your fields to dynamic,
then set the left margin.

When you call FixTextIndent methods, they will set
the indent to the negative of the left margin.

Gary Weinfurther, 12/17/2010
************************************************************/

package com.keysoft.util
{
    import flash.display.DisplayObject;
    import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;

    public class FixTextIndent
    {
        /*---------------------------------------------------
         Fixes the line indent of all dynamic text fields
         in a given display object container so that
         the indent is the negative of their left margin.
        -----------------------------------------------------*/
        public static function FixContainer(container:DisplayObjectContainer):void
        {
            for(var i:int = container.numChildren - 1; i >= 0; --i)
            {
                var obj:DisplayObject = container.getChildAt(i);
               
                if (obj is TextField)
                    FixTextField(obj as TextField);
            }
        }
       
        /*---------------------------------------------------
         Fixes the line indent of a dynamic text field
         to the negative of its left margin
        -----------------------------------------------------*/
        public static function FixTextField(tf:TextField):void
        {
            var format:TextFormat = tf.getTextFormat();
           
            if (format.leftMargin != null && format.leftMargin > 0)
            {
                format.indent = -(format.leftMargin as Number);
                tf.setTextFormat(format);
            }
           
        }
    }

}

Yes and no.  Yes, it has been fixed so that when you open the FLA, the

spacing is remembered.  But no, it is not remembered at runtime after you

publish the file.