Yes. It was converted to a path at the beginning. What's not so clear from the tutorial is why its necessary to break the object apart after converting it. I find I have to ctrl-click each letter to individually select it, whereas the default selection is combined. (The tutorial uses a script font t...

I'm watching a nice video here about making faux 3D text. I follow the tutorial, and it says to interpolate 50 times between the two text objects. Okay, fine. I understand that. First time I went to do it, a "python" installer appeared to install something, but then interpolation failed. E...