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can i convert text node into a shape? so I can make outline text animation. Or maybe there is another way to animate outline text?

There are new Shape tools in 17 that may answer this.

The new R17 shape tools don't really do that, at least not yet. You can't use a text+ as an *input* for the shape system, nor is there a special "sText" node designed to work with shapes. They also don't read any kind of outside vector graphics. You could, however use text+ nodes to affect the *output* of the shape system.

But you can make outline text animation using the shading tab of the text+ node.