borislav

Just to share a new finding with developers. I've tried an open source (turned out it's not open source, just had a GitHub account for issues) editor called Photopea, it manages to open the PSD file, but replaces the font with another one. I understand that, as being browser based, it does not have access to my system fonts. This app initially shows the text layer rasterized to keep it identical to the original, but allows you to edit the text by clicking on it, which saves the retyping and even keeps the original text colour. A similar feature could be very useful in Affinity. When a bad text layer is clicked, ask the user if he wants to recover what is possible, keeping text, colour or font (ideally all). Update: Actually after preloading the font in Photopea (File->Open->Font) it opens and edits the PSD file exactly as it did in Photoshop 7.0. It even handles alignment and text wrapping. I really hope this "Bad text data" error in Affinity is fixable.

Hi, I am evaluating Affinity Photo 1.6.5.135 on Windows 10 as a replacement for Photoshop and the first thing I wanted to try is how it handles importing PSD files. I have some PSD files created in Photoshop 7 (I believe), but it imports text as "Pixel" instead of text. I've tried to turn on the "Import PSD text as text rather than bitmap" option, but when opening the file I get the message "Bad text data" for each of the text layers. The rest of the layers look exactly as they did in Photoshop, which is awesome. I've attached one of those file as an example. It has a single text layer. I know PSD format is purely documented, but I would be very happy if it was somehow possible to import as editable text in Affinity and then save as affinity's default format. I don't care about saving back to PSD. Thanks, Borislav sometext2.psd