I am not trying to adjust the spacing of the letters, I am trying to make the overlapping parts of the letters become one solid piece so that if you were cutting out the letter you would continue around all parts of the letter without crossing back and forth over the top of the letter. Does that mak...

Whenever I use a text font that has swirls that overlap part of the letters or some cursive fonts, I don't know how to weld it all together to become solid for cutting purposes. I've tried converting the text to a path and then using "union", but aparently I'm not doing something right. Ca...