That, however, will create the text/image sitting on top of the image so the image can still be abstracted.
Even if you Group or Soft-group, the text and image may still be kept separate in the output.
Apply Clipview works well as does Apply opacity mask.
The former needs a Transparency, the latter does it more easily by change the text colour. This gives individual glyph transparency control.
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