New CodePlex project for text effects in Silverlight 2 RC0
I have created a new control called a PathTextBlock that lets you draw outlined text and allows you to distort the text. It started out as a need I had to draw outlined text, and then I saw a few people asking for drawing along a curve, etc. and figured I could create a control to do both.
How it works is that the font file is converted to a XML representation of the font which contains the Path data, and then the Path object is used in Silverlight to render the text. You can also apply transforms to the text and create your own transforms.
I'm making the code available free through CodePlex under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL).
You can see more about the PathTextBlock project here:
http://www.codeplex.com/sltext
If you create something cool with it please let me know, I'd love to see it.