Originally Posted by
tcough3475
DickB - It does help understand how I need to work in Designer and following everyones advice has eliminated the distortion of the text once rotated. Unfortunatly it doesn't appear that there is a way to change both the height and width of the text independant of each other (i.e. it must be constrained). And this is OK if the selected font is has all the characteristics a project requires. But, as in my case, if you need to compress in one direction and stretch in the other direction, most likley you'll end up with some undesirable results. Was really hoping to do this using vectors instead of raster carving everything just to save time. This inability seems to be a short-fall of Designer as I'm able to do this in most other drawing packages I use (Corel, PaintShop Pro, and even Aspire). I only have the trial version of Aspire to play with but it looks like I'll be saving my money to purchase it in the future.
Thanks again folks for all your help! And I'm not ragging on Designer as it has been a great little program, one just needs to know it's limitations and the work-arounds such as this. And learning the package is just as important as using it to carve the projects.