ivanhlj Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Good day! I am a beginner with Affinity Photo. I am confused why text layers are converted into pixel after saving my work as PSD. Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @ivanhlj. While Affinity applications can read PSD files and make the text layers editable, if you have the proper Preferences option set, they can not save editable text in the PSD format. The PSD file format is not a formally standardized format, but is rather a proprietary Adobe format. It is only partly documented for use by other application developers. As I understand it, one aspect that is not documented (or not documented completely) is how to save editable text. There are probably additional functions you will find are not supported for saving, and in some cases even for reading. Again, this will be due to either incomplete documentation or in some cases simply because Affinity does not have equivalent functions implemented. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Pšenda Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: The PSD file format is not a formally standardized format, but is rather a proprietary Adobe format. It is only partly documented for use by other application developers. As I understand it, one aspect that is not documented (or not documented completely) is how to save editable text. 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: While Affinity applications can read PSD files and make the text layers editable If Affinity can load a PSD file so that the text is editable, it understands its format (at least the part where the text is stored in editable form). So why not save it in the exact same part of the known format? Ignorance of the format (at least the part where the text is stored in an editable form) will definitely not be the cause. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
Alfred Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 12 minutes ago, Pšenda said: If Affinity can load a PSD file so that the text is editable, it understands its format (at least the part where the text is stored in editable form). So why not save it in the exact same part of the known format? Ignorance of the format (at least the part where the text is stored in an editable form) will definitely not be the cause. Please see these old posts: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
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