How to animate a serif?

In CS3 I want to animate the serif of a font to reveal the word, I converted the text into a shape layer and tried to use the Trim Paths effect to reveal the word but as the seirf font is very circular it doesn't quite work.
Could anyone offer advice on how best to animate this text on following the circular paths of the serif.
I have uploaded my project to my site www.personalmovies.co.uk/serif.zip
Thx
Kevin

Steve:
What you're experiencing is a byproduct of the power of shape layers
It's important to understand that the nature of shape effects (just like Illustrator) is that they don't work on textures (ie, the appearance attributes like stroke) but on the "model" (the paths themselves). So, when you apply Trim Paths on a shape that has a fill attribute, you're going to see how fill is dynamically re-applied as the paths are trimmed. Probably not what you want. If you want to animate stroke (or animate things so that it looks like you're animating stroke), you could duplicate the group, turn off fill, make sure stroke is on, and apply Trim Paths on that duplicate group.
This way of operating is what allows you to have (among a million other things) dynamic stroke cap/join/dash styles as you trim the path, which would be impossible otherwise.
Also, regarding a previous post, Trim paths can work on paths sequentially or simultaneouly. Your choice.
Let me know if this helps, or if it still confusing.

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