Thanks! Great work!

var o:Shape = new Shape();
addChild(o);
VectorShapes.draw(o.graphics, “c26″);

you can also see how Li is doing it in away3d http://code.google.com/p/away3d/source/browse/trunk/fp10/Away3D/src/away3d/loaders/Swf.as

Here a little part of my code :

private function loadShapes():void {
var shapeLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
shapeLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY;
shapeLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onShapesLoadedHandler);
shapeLoader.load(new URLRequest(“externalshapes.swf”));
}

private function onShapesLoadedHandler(e:Event):void {

var shapeLoader:URLLoader = e.target as URLLoader;
var shapeBytes:ByteArray = shapeLoader.data as ByteArray;
VectorShapes.extractFromLibrary(shapeBytes, ["c26", "c27", "c28"]);
initObjects();
}

private function initObjects():void {
var plane:AbstractPrimitive = new AbstractPrimitive();
VectorShapes.draw(plane.geometry.graphics, “c26″);
view.scene.addChild(plane);

view.render();
}

Really thank for your job and for your help

I will take a look at the PDF, it seems to contain more than enough info.

I have checked out polygonal & degrafa libs also. I’m surprised that adobe don’t provide the ability to convert fonts to vectors so we can manipulate them in detail.

My aim at the moment is to accurately render a text sentence along an interactive cubic bezier and add a gradient fill.

I have all this working in Flash Builder 4 but I don’t like the way I have to use TextField objects with bitmaps to obtain results. It’s a bit of a mine field with all the adobe text objects TextFields, Labels, RichText etc.

Hence; I’m looking into these great vector libs to help. Can’t be sure I’m heading down the right path yet though, but Wu is looking promising!

I wrote this so long ago, I truly don’t remember – I must be doing some fuzzy logic because if you look at the swf specification.

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf_file_format_spec_v10.pdf

pg. 172 talks about EM Square (1024×1024)
pg. 173 talks about kerning & advance values

you can see that the width is the advance and the start of the next character should be advance + kerning. I just woke up, so what I did there it’s not making all that much sense, maybe it’ll come back to me after a cup of coffee or something… or you can put 1 & 1 together with the above info

static private const EM_SIZE:Number = 1024;
var scale:Number = 1.0 / (EM_SIZE / size);

Where size is font size.

So I multiply getFontDefinition .ascent, .decent, .leading, advances etc by scale and I can derive from this character size in pixels.

Are my thoughts correct or is there another way to derive character size in pixels?

Excellent work!!!

I’m using VectorText.getFontDefinition to get letter size, but what units is the size in please?
VectorText.getFontDefinition(“_Arial”).advances.["A"] is giving me 683 (not pixels i’m guessing).

Also if you VectorText.write ‘Hello World’ at font size 100, how do you get the width in pixels of a letter written at font size 100.

Thx

thank you. you can already use line breaks but there’s no word wrap, which is what you’re after.