For quick and dirty lettering try using wordart in Word. There is a plugin(?) called SVGMaker, costs about $50 but it creates a virtual printer that will output your word document as an SVG file that can then be sent to any vector device. I use it to send text to my plotter to cut heat transfer vinyl, works great.

John

Can you post a couple pictures to show what you mean? Maybe one at the beginning and then the end result.

How do I post a PDF example?

Here PDF of same text, straight, then two textbook wordart. All done in word then exported to a SVG using SVGMaker, a $50 software that emulates a printer. Converts anything "printed" to a vector file. Wordart offers million different variations in seconds.

John

Typo SVGMaker was $39.00, thought I typed 50 but typed 5

Sounds like a cool alternative, thanks for sharing. If the emulator creates a decent vector file then that can be very useful.

Yeah and Word does do some cool text manipulation. If you can use it why not?

Cool stuff.