Creating text using outlines and gradients/fills

I've been using pages awhile, and I make a lot of posters with it for my classroom. I know it has some limitations.
I really want to take text, make a bold black outline of it (format > font > outline), and then fill it with a gradient, or at least a fill color. I am able to color, or outline, but not both, and I cannot find the option to make gradients except on backgrounds or shapes. Is there a way to do that in 2.0, before the next update?

Welcome to the forums.
This can indeed be done, but it is a very cumbersome process, because the text needs to be made into an object, and that can't be done from within Pages.
The process involves creating the text in some external drawing application (such as Illustrator or the free Inkscape, saving the file as an SVG file, using svg2key to convert the SVG file into Keynote objects, then copying those from Keynote into Pages (which uses the same object format as Keynote).
Once you have these as objects, you can reuse them as you like, changing their colour, stroke, and size like any other object, so you may only need to do this once for an "alphabet" that you reuse.
I certainly do hope that the next update lets one create outline text directly within Pages.

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Marco,
I tryed to work with dbms_xslprocessor.clob2file,
that works good,
but what is in this matter with encoding UTF-8 ?
in my understandig, the xmltyp created should be UTF8 (16),
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1     hallo
2     straße
3     mäckie
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<ROW>
<S0>4</S0>
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regards
Norbert

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