<off-topic>launchpad - please implement comment edit function ;-)</off-topic>
the difference: the menu command 'Object to Path' in 0.47 converts the characters to grouped individual paths whereas the export option 'Convert texts to paths' works as in 0.46 by converting text objects to combined paths.
<off-topic> launchpad - please implement comment edit function ;-)</off-topic>
the difference: the menu command 'Object to Path' in 0.47 converts the characters to grouped individual paths whereas the export option 'Convert texts to paths' works as in 0.46 by converting text objects to combined paths.