Sallybode's gold text topic in the Corel Draw forum got me started on this one. Following her general description, I played around with PI's tools and came up with the results below. PI has great 3D vector effects, but the results below did not use them. Just started with text converted to image objects, gaussian blur, wavy curve adjustments, colorized and overlaying layers with various blend modes. It's the hard way, I know, but I just had to see if they could be done... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/grafixman/goldtext.jpg