I might be going about this the wrong way and am having trouble doign this.
I have some artistic text, that I converted to curves. This artistic text, included outline which I would like to keep with the text. But now - I would like to apply a fill, to fill the entire creation, including the outlines, seamlessly. Basically, replace the outline color with the fill, and the fill itself - such as linear fountain fill.
How should this be done?
You can convert the outline to an object (on the arrange menu) and fill the new object.
This will give you a hollow shape, so you probably need to duplicate the text before creating the outline, and then weld it to the outline so you can fill everything as a single shape.
Alternatively, remove the outline, create an outside contour instead and then delete the original.