I beleive that since the tutorial was written, converting text now creates groups of letter paths, you will have to ungroup before differencing.

A good tip is to always keep your eye on the status bar to see the type of the object you have selected.

-Rob A>

Thanx I will try when iget home. Why do u think that it is coded like this? Seems a little counter intuitive to me not that I'm complaining.

Very strange still doesn't work. Combine works and intersection just erases the whole thing.

I finally figured it out. You have to ungroup plus select the txt then perform a union on it. I noticed that the status bar said that difference would only accept 2 paths at a time to perform the action. So union satisfies this and allows me to do the difference on the txt. Maybe useful for other newbies that get stuck here.

Xaphoid wrote:Thanx I will try when iget home. Why do u think that it is coded like this? Seems a little counter intuitive to me not that I'm complaining.

From the Release notes 0.47:

«Converting text to path produces a group
Converting a text or flowed text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) now produces a group of paths, one path for each glyph of text, instead of a single monolithic path as before. Apart from easier manipulation, an additional advantage is that if your text contained styled spans (i.e. fragments with different color, opacity, or other properties), these styles will be preserved by the corresponding glyph paths after the conversion. You can still easily get a single path out of such a group by selecting it and doing Combine (Ctrl+K).

Combine works on groups
The Combine command now works transparently on groups, i.e. combines paths inside selected groups at any level of grouping.

Exclusion works on multiple paths
The Exclusion boolean operation can now operate on an arbitrary number of paths. »