Keynote 08 (or 09), How can I create Curved Text? Text 'bent' around arc?

Help,
I have this frustrating situation. I want to use the move and scale animation feature for objects in Keynote 08. But on many slides, I want to have Text Curved or Bent, around an arc shape (around a graphic we use). Now Powerpoint 08 has this easy way of Editing any text into a curved or arc shape. But it does not have the motion and scale object feature. Key note has the motion feature but it seems can't handle curved text?
How can I curve text in Keynote 08 (or 09)?
Truk

You can't curve text in Keynote, so there's no way to animate a curve around a shape. However, if you find that just curved text will do even if you can't animate it, you'd have to use something like ArtText.
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/arttext/overview.php

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