thought I'd run this past you guys...

ok, I want to use vector fonts so I can scale up and skew, etc. and not lose quality and I also want some "canned" code that will take a word and manipulate it in a certain fashion. for example, if I had the user enter "LIONS", some function would take each character and reformat the word to look arched or rainbow or bridged or some other formats.

so "LIONS" would become:

LIONS

you get the idea...is there a component or some canned code that can provide that functionality? basically I want Photoshop or Illustrator functionality (the way you would put text in different arrangements) but I need it done dynamically. Lastly, if this doesn't exist in AS3, why doesn't someone create a component that would do that, the code exists somewhere...they probably could make a ton of money because I haven't been able to find it on the web and I know others are looking for that functionality. I would pay money for it because I don't have the time to spend developing it. Let me know your thoughts!

something like this?

Type in the bordered textField to see it work

http://www.lordofduct.com/FlashTest/.../textTest.html

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Oh just to let you know, I didn't embed fonts, so if you can't see any of the text... that's just cause they aren't on your pc. But I don't think I used uncommon fonts or anything, you aughta have them.

yeah, that's definitely the idea...it would need to be fine-tuned and provide more configurations, but that's definitely the idea. what method are you using? is this a project you would want to undertake?

I just used a sine curve to create a parametric curve for the arch. And set the fontsize per character every time the text was updated, or the min/max font size was updated.

what kind of configurations and stuff would you want?

I'm wanting rainbow or arched, bridge shape (up and down), one side big another little, one side little and the other big (like stairs up and down), bowtie, and reverse bowtie (like bloated in middle instead of at ends).

and maybe a couple others....but if I could get those I would be fine with that thus far. ideas?