Well, The first thing Google brings for "site:chattyfig.figleaf.com envelope" is recent Flashcoders discussion "Applying transformations to text?" :-)
AND also one named "skew function" (2001) with a nice functions from Robert Penner and others. Robin Debreuil's example: http://www.debreuil.com/skew/skew_v01.swf I haven't tried yet, but maybe you can: 1) Break (dynamic) text into letters 2) Skew each letter and scale, if needed What do you think? -- Best regards, GregoryN ================================ http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. ------- aklist_flash wrote: > 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! _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
