Combining loose text to a single shape/curve.

[DutchDude]

How do I do that? 

I need to export a file to shapes and I'm running into hurdles. I wish to combine words into a single item (shape or curve, whatever the terminology is) to keep them connected. Previous experience showed me that grouping is not always treated the same across platforms and applications so I want them combined to a single item.

I have text with an o and an A which has been converted to curves. Any way of combining the letters either deletes the inside shapes or deletes the letters entirely. Ending up with a filled circle and a triangle with legs.

What am I doing wrong here?

[mmahmoodh]

Can you share a sample video of that? You can use Add in geometery.
I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about, but check the video.
 

[DutchDude]

Ah.

I did the conversion from text to curve earlier and possibly did something else to it. In my resulting set of curves I did the "add" command and the inside curve of the O and A were added to the outside since they were both in the same space that meant the insides were absorbed and their curves dissolved.

Rebuilding the text then convert to curves and do the "add", it worked.

In hindsight I could have done the add to all the outside curves and then subtract the insides. But that's a lot of selecting for a long text.

 

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, DutchDude said:

I need to export a file to shapes and I'm running into hurdles.

To what format (file type) do you want to export your Affinity file? If it is a pure raster format like JPEG, the text will end up as pixels, not a shape (vector) or text object. 

[DutchDude]

On 12/26/2024 at 7:59 PM, R C-R said:

To what format (file type) do you want to export your Affinity file? If it is a pure raster format like JPEG, the text will end up as pixels, not a shape (vector) or text object. 

Thank you! It will be exported as a .pdf with swatches for the printer. Also I want the logo to be scalable. I'm alright now.