Missing (invisible) text in Affinity Design

[comancheTodd]

I'm working on a map used as an illustration for a fantasy novel. It was imported from Adobe Illustrator CS4. It involves lots of text labels as well as drawn vector features. I've been organizing all the layers and groups to make it easier to navigate to fix and change things.

I've been cleaning up and adapting the larger font fields, and I'm now ready to start working on the smaller text fields, and they aren't there.

• They appear in layers; when I select the layer with the Move Tool, the box and handles appear, but there's nothing inside the box.
• If I select the text box, then select the Text tool, it acts like it is selecting text, but nothing appears.
• I've double checked all the places that control transparency (I think) and they all look normal. Something like 30 text fields now have "invisible text" inside them.
• I've even tried converting to text to curves or rasterizing it to see if that makes it visible. Nothing
• I've started and stopped the program several times, still nothing.
• The other text I've finished working on is all still visible.

Any ideas?

[carl123]

Can you upload the Affinity document?

[comancheTodd]

Sure. Here it is.

map—7th_Empire_Complete_(20⋅12⋅01).afdesign

[carl123]

Some of your layers appear to have been imported as Pixel layers and you have text layers as child layers of the pixel layer.

If you use vector(?) layers or groups instead of pixel layers it should then work.

Resizing the Layers panel (as shown below) should let you easily identify the pixel layers

 

[comancheTodd]

Hurrah! It worked! (I knew it had to be something I was doing wrong)

Thank you so much!

Todd