That’s a cool tool you’re building! The problem with the approaches that I explored last year is that I never “solved” curve handling. My goal was extracting edges, then converting that to vector information so that I could eventually extrude the text (or shapes) into 3d objects. In these situations, the “curves” are nothing more than short lines following a curve. If you were to use that for print, it would look like crap I’m afraid.

Given text with vector information, to do such transformation and end up with vector data that can be scaled for printing purposes, I fear, requires some math. I might be able to come up with a solution, but it would take time. You might want to try contacting Jim Armstrong at http://algorithmist.wordpress.com/ . I have no idea about his availability, but I’m sure it would be an easy pickle for him.

Here is what I have:http://dev.mylocker.net/NewControlPanel/index2.html

Any suggestions are welcome. We are also willing to pay for any help. You seem like the text expert on the web when it comes to creating vector text.

Thanks for your time,

Carey

private static function getGridStringFromPoint(bmd:BitmapData,position:Point):byte{
var type:byte = 0;
if(bmd.getPixel32(position.x+_scan_point0.x,position.y+_scan_point0.y)>0×0)
type +=1;
if(bmd.getPixel32(position.x+_scan_point1.x,position.y+_scan_point1.y)>0×0)
type += 2;
if(bmd.getPixel32(position.x+_scan_point2.x,position.y+_scan_point2.y)>0×0)
type += 4;
if(bmd.getPixel32(position.x+_scan_point3.x,position.y+_scan_point3.y)>0×0)
type += 8;

return byte;
}