flash actionscript: Hi,

I am trying to find a Macromedia tool that will allow for creating images
programmatically. Our company has a web site that sells Boat lettering. Users
can type the text, select a font, effect (e.g., border), and click on the
preview button. This action should create an image on-the-fly with the font,
effects, etc that they had selected. Here is an example of what we want our
page to look like:
http://www.speedysigns.com/lettering/lettering_tool.asp

Macromedia has many tools for creating images. But can any of them be used on
the web as I described above? I did some research on Flash Generator, which
seems to offer exactly what I need. But I found no documentation on the web
site and someone mentioned that it is no longer being sold. Has it been
replaced it with something else?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

you can use flash alone for the text. i'm not sure what you have in mind for
the border and how that would work. because you'll need to embed the fonts
that you want displayed you may want to make separate movies for every few
fonts. you can figure every font that you embed will increase the size of your
swf by 10kb-15kb. there will be a trade-off between ease of construction of
you project and download time for your users.

I don't think it would be feasible to embed the fonts in the movie as there are
over 75 of them that we will use.

Here is an example of what I need to create:
http://www.speedysigns.com/lettering/lettering_tool.asp

This example shows how the user can change the font and effects (eg, border)
for the text that he or she enters.

flash has no other way to ensure that the font used in a swf is used on the
users side except by embedding fonts. embedding 75 fonts in one movie would
yield a swf pushing 1 meg in size. so, it seems more reasonable use separate
10-20 swfs each embedding a few fonts.