Issues with Emboss- Text not straight/cannot be straightened

[zachary_demarco_h54328]

Good day everyone. I've worked with the emboss tool before with 0 issues, however, today I cannot say the same. I'm trying to emboss some basic text on a spherical object (single face). The loft succeeds as an operation, however instead of embossing the text straight across the object relative to the sketch, its creating an emboss that is curved in unpredictable ways. I'm at my wits here as I cannot find anything like this online, and again this has never occurred before. 

Any and all help is super appreciated. 

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Since Emboss will not work directly, make it a multi-step process.  You can vary the height of the raised letters is you like by editing the Surface Offset indicated below.  This of course is within reason.  Model is attached.

[jhackney1972]

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[zachary_demarco_h54328 · Accepted solution]

John,

Thanks so much for the response. While I have not tried your method, I can see from your photo that it did indeed work in a similar use case as mine, so I will be checking out your methodology. 
What I opted to do instead was to create a separate cylinder of similar nominal diameter, emboss that surface, and then remove the original cylinder via an extrude function, leaving only the text that I could use with a combine function on the original desired geometry. This worked well enough for my needs. 

Marking as solved. Have a great day!