"Daniel L. Isdell" wrote:
> I need a way to create beveled text. I used to use POVSB but it added the
> width of the bevels to the outside of the text body so to prevent this, I
> started by creating the text in Corel Draw, cearting a condensed version by
> using the "contourr function to make a "skinnier" version to compensate for
> the extra width added by the bevels, exporting as DXF, importing the 2D DXF
> into POVSB and extruding it and adding the Bevels. OK it's an extremely
> circuitious method but the results were really great, plus it allowed me to
> modify the font for things like logos. However POVSB seems to have gone
> away.... What other modelers do bevels text or better yet import, extrude
> and bevel 2D DXF?

Elefont won't import, but it does all sorts of text beveling:

http://home.inm.ch/armin/elefont/elefont.htm

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