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As a graphic designer looking to transition away from Photoshop, I am going through a bunch of my .psd archives checking for compatibility. The first thing I noticed is that text along a path is not in interpreted/rendered correctly. You can see here a sample file with a text created in Photoshop, and that same file opened in Affinity Photo:

All of my existing Photoshop-like data files are PSDs from Photoshop Elements and so I was very happy to see that Affinity Photo has excellent PSD import capabilities. I am very much a beginner even with PS and so my PSD files are very minimal... so imagine my surprise when Affinity Photo garbled the text layers in my import! Specifically, all of the raster/pixel layers from the import are pristine and AP did get the family, size, and colors of the font layers correct, but the layout is completely wrong for all of them. Either the simply positioning of the the text is incorrect or the path the text follows is entirely missing. What I'm looking for now is what next steps I might take, based on what the expectations are around this. I can think of three scenarios: AP my be excellent overall with PSD imports, but not text and I shouldn't expect text to import correctly at all. If so, then I stop here and only use AP for new work AP is excellent with text importing from PSDs, as well, so this is a bug. Given that, I will post an example PSD as a bug in the bug forum AP should be able to handle this so I'm most likely doing something wrong. In that case, let me know what I might look at that I'm doing incorrectly and I'll go from there. Thanks