Dave Gould gave us a great curling text style and I decided to do one also so you can put in your own text and never leave PTE 9. This style uses a small real video of flames inside text and lets you put your own text in - everything is done right in PTE 9 without needing to create a PNG file in Photoshop or other text editor. There is also a link to a tutorial on this which I think will be helpful, especially for new PTE users....
EDIT: In view of Dave's suggestion - If the user wants a stroke around the text or curved text or other non-normal shape, instead of entering text as described in the tutorial, just create PNG text as you like in Photoshop, select the text under Mask Stencil in Objects and Animations and replace that text with your PNG creation. It works fine either way. Follow Dave's PDF tutorial to create PNG text in Photoshop.
Sample and style below:
flametexttutorial.wmv
Curling Real Flames Text.ptestyle