I have a problem, there may be a solution... (wrapping text around shapes and scroll)

Hi people,
first of all I ask you to look at picture a.jpg.

As you can see I have a text wrapped around a picture of a car. The text follows the shape of the car.
To do like that I had to work in fireworks reducing the font size and in some line I had to reduce space between letters (note, one line = one text field -> crazy (-: ) to make it perfectly around the car.
Customer wanted me to have non antialiased text, because this one it’s too smooth and hard to read, I must agree…:td:

Look at pic b.jpg

This is non antialiased text, still a png in fireworks, still a horrible solution.
As you can see it also gives strange stretch artifacts…;(

Now look at pic c.jpg

It’s just a horrible PS simulation, don’t worry, about the graphics…
this may be a good solution:

-load the text from a text file or an XML (easy)

-auto wrap the text around the car (impossible? I can’t figure out how… Maybe recreating the shape with the brush in flash and using something similar to the hit test? I really don’t know…)

-scroll the text between all those text line (not very easy (for me :slight_smile: ) but can be done)

Maybe it can be done with just one text field? Or one per side?
If you can figure out a good solution please let me know… Thank you. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ve also tried to use flash non antialias text but it can’t be managed as much as in fireworks… Plus, sometimes the non antialias text sometimes comes out blurry even if placed on a perfect pixel… This is driving me crazy…