Press articles

[silverado]

Hello,
I'm designing a company's site in which there's a button called press-kit where you can find all the press articles that have been written in different newspapers that talk about this company.
How can I do it so people can read these articles in the same format as they are in the newspaper?.
Can it be done within Flash or they need to be in another format?.
Any ideas?.
Thanks in advance.

[jimburton]

There's lots you can do with the TextFormat object, create them and apply them to your text, should be enough formatting to make a good approximation...I also saw a component on www.flashcomponents.net to do an "image wrap" type effect, which would be v useful if you wanted to mimic newsprint...dunno how they did but looked good

[crabcake]

You can obviously lay out the pages to look like very much like the original print publications, though this is going to be a bit of work. Presumably you want them to look just like the newspaper page, so they have the impression they are reading the original?

[silverado]

Yes, I want them to look like the newspaper. I think that the only solution is to scan them.

[crabcake]

I'm inclined to think so too, though they are going to make for quite large downloads. You'll probably need to optimize them in Photoshop and use GIFs to maintain the readability. Alternatively, you could just use scanned images for those parts that are distinctive, like logos and headers, and do the rest in static text. Most newspapers and magazines use the same types of fonts for their body text.

[silverado]

Thanks for the help!