LetraStudio offers a wealth of powerful features, including several not available in TypeStyler, but it is decidedly unintuitive. The menu items look familiar from the outside, but the commands within are arranged so strangely that it’s often difficult to find what you need.
Once you get used to the awkward interface, however, you're treated to a smorgasbord of new features. The envelope concept, LetraStudio's basis for text and shape distortion, is powerful. Envelopes act as transparent, moldable shapes that can hold text and graphics. When you distort an envelope, its contents are also distorted. Version 2.0 provides a new selection of customizable envelopes you can use to create distortions resembling cans, rings, and funky ribbons.
Other enhancements include the ability to create custom envelope libraries and the ability to create multisided distortions. In addition, you can now move objects in envelopes beyond envelope edges.
Two of LetraStudio’s most attractive new features aren't available in TypeStyler and, for some users, may compensate for LetraStudio’s hamstrung interface. The first is the ability to make text objects into graphic objects, complete with Bézier controls that let you edit the character outlines. Want to make a Helvetica H look like it's melting? No problem — LetraStudio lets you manipulate the outlines of your text-cum-graphic to your heart’s content.
The second major LetraStudio feature not available in TypeStyler involves files imported in Adobe Illustrator format. Here’s the best part: Once you’ve placed an Illustrator graphic, you can manipulate and transform it as if you had created it in LetraStudio. Whatever the source program, your illustration will transfer as editable line art, with 1-point lines defining its contours. Fills, masks, and text, however, don’t transfer. Although you can use Illustrator or FreeHand images in TypeStyler, you can’t edit them.
TypeStyler and LetraStudio can export files in Illustrator format, so you can further transform text and graphics outlines in Illustrator or FreeHand. Additionally, each program can export files in EPS and other formats for use in pagelayout applications.
LetraStudio also offers a few conveniences TypeStyler doesn’t. As you move objects, it lets you view the objects themselves, not just their bounding boxes, and you can have more than one document open at a time. LetraStudio's precision controls will appeal to the more quantitatively inclined. Additionally, LetraStudio is bundled with the Character Chooser, a kind of enhanced Key Caps DA.
Cryan, Shelley. (October 1992). LetraStudio 2.0 and TypeStyler 2.0. MacUser. (pgs. 70, 72).
LetraStudio 2.02
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
