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Sorry.

I think outlining text may have to go in the suggestion box. I tried cheating by putting smaller text in front of larger text but it really doesn't work at all.
Code:

PFont font;
textOutline hello;
void setup(){
  size(400,200);
  font = loadFont("BookmanOldStyle-Bold-48.vlw");
  hello = new textOutline("Hello World");
  textFont(font, 70);
  textAlign(CENTER);
}
void draw(){
  background(0);

  translate(20,height/2);
  hello.draw();
}
class textOutline{
  String label;
  textOutline(String label){
    this.label = label;
  }
  void draw(){
    float xStep = 0.0;
    for(int i = 0; i < label.length(); i++){
	String letter = str(label.charAt(i));
	fill(255);
	text(letter,xStep,0);
	textSize(52);
	fill(0);
	text(letter,xStep,-2);
	textSize(60);
	xStep += textWidth(letter);
    }
  }
}
 

You'll need to look up pushMatrix() and popMatrix() for moving you text around though so you can get on with some stacked moving about routines.

There could be many ways but they are not so lite in terms of cpu. One could be, for instance, apply a blur in the same text in the back, of course with a different color, and then checking the levels of color decide if to remove the blurness. An other could be to apply the dilation http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/dilate.html to the text in the back.
In both cases to make it more versatile you should handle each word as image, maybe using also an alpha channel.

I hope this helps, chr

Gabon - interesting ideas, I hadn't thought of either of those. Seems like a lot just to stroke some text... I'm also not so sure about bringing the words in as images. I was hoping to keep them as vectors.

Beachmeat - that would work, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that exactly.

What would work is if I could import a vector, say an Illustrator EPS, but I've been unable to determine if that is possible either.