For more complex (and better looking :-) ) meshes with text, you may want to look at my program Pomelo. See:

https://github.com/dov/pomelo

Pomelo creates the meshes, that may then be imported into blender for further processing.

Here is an example of the kind of meshes that you can create with Pomelo, that would be very difficult to create natively in Blender.

[![Pomelo generated mesh imported into Blender][1]][1]


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/15ZZi.jpg