From the online samples, I don't see any demonstration of the claimed
ability to distort the text, just to place the letters along different
curves. Am I missing something? I hope so, since I've been looking for a
way to do text distortions (such as making text fit a flat-topped arch).
- Marc Hoffman
I, too, have been looking for a solution to this problem. Some users have
suggested using the bitmapData and the displacementMapFilter, but it seems
like it would be exceedingly complicated to do a very simple effect like an
"arch"...it would involve (I think) splitting the text into multiple
sections and applying different displacements to the sections...way beyond
me!
This FLA was suggested:
http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.172
and it seems like it could be tweaked to do a simple "squeeze" or
"bloat"...I haven't got that far with it yet.
Alternatively, it seems like it would be much simpler to pass the text and
some distortion parameters to an image-rendering app and re-import a PNG of
the distorted text into the player. I haven't been able to find any app,
however, that could run in the background on a server to handle the
image-processing!
-AK
At 09:23 PM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
I'd like to recommend Text2Curve component for this:
http://gousable.com/flash/text2curve.html
It has a lot of advantages over "TextOnCircle" Weyert mentioned:
- can place text along ellipse or sine, not only circle
- more methods to manipulate this text
- can be used in Flash IDE, even rotated/distorted there.
- some more :-)
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