You won't find this level of control in the deformers of Carrara. What I'd do is create the text path in Illustrator or Freehand (illustrator has a spiral function- I don't know about Freehand), put the text on it, outline and import into the spline modeler in Carrara. This would be an interesting formula deformer though. That is one feature that I've spent almost no time with. I'll have to play around with the formula now... ;) Mark