Animated Handwritten Text

Is there a plugin, or another way, to make text appear to be handwritten on the screen.  That is, animated, as thought someone is writting across the screen. The client....

I've been posting this advice for decades, might not apply to your situation so ignore.
If you need to simulate handwriting, it's really hard. If all you need to do is reveal glyphs from left to right, that's easy; a simple mask will do the job.
Here's how we did it in the olden days: we put a camera under a piece of glass and had someone write on the glass with a paint pen. Then we used that tape (tape!) to key a black line. That experience, and the fact that I am avid fountain pen user, has honed my handwriting reveal skills to unimaginable heights. Use a script typeface or photograph real handwriting. Then get ready for many interesting hours of mask animations. You will need dozens of masks.
The trick is to realize that handwriting is nonlinear and requires what is known as lifts. The pen comes off the page and the hand moves before the pen contacts the page again. You lift between words, some glyphs, and to dot or cross some characters. Some characters take much more time to draw that others. If all of your masks move at the same pace the effect is obviously fake.

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    oxonian wrote:
    > I've recently found that Illustrator does a good job of
    taking handwritten
    > script (using Wacom tablet) and turning it into a vector
    object -- mostly
    > simply, via the pencil tool which just makes a curved.
    >
    > What I'd like to do is figure out if/how I can use Flash
    to animate the
    > process of writing stuff -- so that to the viewer it
    looks like I am writing on
    > the screen in real time.
    >
    > Any ideas? Note that (from my efforts so far) Flash
    itself doesn't do a good
    > job of capturing handwriting (too jagged) but pasting an
    object from
    > Illustrator looks fine.
    >

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