RFE: Improved Text TOP Stroke and/or new Stroke TOP

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It would be very useful in many use cases to be able to easily and quickly add a stroke in the same way that you can in Photoshop layer effect named ‘Stroke’.

Problem with Edge TOP: if you want to have a nice fat stroke, and try to use Sample Steps, it starts to fall apart:
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Problem with Text TOP Stroke mode: other than a bug where it’s only rendering the first word, it also falls apart at larger values:

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Problem with using blur + threshold: it’s not performant, and you can’t get sharp corners.

The most useful thing in my opinion would be a new op “Stroke TOP” that gives you similar controls to photoshop, such as:

  1. stroke width
  2. stroke position (outside, inside, centered)

and maybe some extra controls such as corner rounding/beveling similar to Illustrator

related old post from 2015: Text stroke

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I just wanted to throw in here that stroke options in the new Text COMP would be nice as well, no clue what the lift for something like this is or if slug allows for it, but being able to have stroke + fill colors, thickness and corner styles ( miter, round, etc) as well as under or over features for the stroke on the text COMP ( and TOP) would be pretty handy.

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