[Johnson&johnson]

i dont want to scale it cause it is scaled propertionly and the mask expension gives it more special look almost like its coming out of a wall or something-the thing is that i use first the stroke effect on the font so it looks like it grows almost like a tree and then i want to apply expension to give the font an effect like it is being painted. naother thing dont forget that the font is hollow inside thats why i want to use the fill effect!!

[Johnson&johnson]

the thing i want to do is make the font to appear from scratch using mask expension-for that i need the font to be masked and its a very complex font and its hard to mask it in after or to auto trace it properly.the thing is i want the font to be filled like a paint or something and for that i need to paint the font before i mask it and i use the fill effect and then when i use mask expension the memory problem accures.
i hope u understood my probelm i dont think i did but never mind.