KPT Vector Effects, bring it to illustrator

I used to use this plug-in before the OSX days, it worked great at warping/arching/arcing type, much much much better than the current tools in illustrator. I believe Corel might have bought the program or some rumor like that, but it would be great if Adobe could aquire that and bring it to illustrator. It worked so smooth allowing for saved pre-sets, and letting you manipulate the points on each side of the text independently or together. The only drawback it had was the text had to be converted to outlines.

I agree.
The warp tools in Illustrator now are the same ones that Letraset did back in the old days. KPT Vector Effects had them beat then and still does.
The control that the program gave you was wonderful -- not like warp.
The interface was elegant.
Just adding those features would be reason enough to upgrade to the next version IMHO.
I wonder if the Frenchman that created it kept the rights and that is why Corel was not able to upgrade. Although Corel has a terrible reputation for letting programs die...
I worked on the beta testing team at the time.
As far as any plug-in that Kai put out it was the best one. Some of the others had rather unorthidox interfaces.
I miss it.

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