Text Rasterized and Not Editable--How to Undo

[Bunny Photos]

Hi!  I flattened and rasterized my text box and now cannot go back in to edit my text (I'm a true novice).  Is there a way to undo?  I've gone back into my history but it did not save anything from before the document was flattened. I've seen other posts that I just need to undo the rasterize, but I don't know how to do that.  Thanks.

[v_kyr]

Try from the top menu "Edit > Undo" (or the keyboard shortcut Cmd-z) and repeat that several times until your text box hopefully isn't rasterized anymore. - See also:

Design aids

• Using undo, redo and history

Extras

• Keyboard shortcuts

 

[Bunny Photos]

Thank you.  But I have tried to do that and it only goes as far as when I last closed the program, which was after the text was rasterized.  It doesn't allow me to go further back in history.

[carl123]

1 hour ago, Bunny Photos said:

which was after the text was rasterized

If you rasterised the text box and saved and closed the document there is no way to un-rasterise it

But your screenshot does not appear to show a rasterised text box

Did you show us the wrong text box selected?

Uploading the document may help us understand what the problem is

[John Rostron]

@Bunny Photos

If your text consists of popular carols, then you best bet is to find fresh copies fom the web and re-create your page.

John

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, Bunny Photos said:

But I have tried to do that and it only goes as far as when I last closed the program, which was after the text was rasterized.  It doesn't allow me to go further back in history.

If you need the History preserved across editing sessions, you need to enable File > Save History With Document before you Save it and close the application.

[wonderings]

Simple option if you have TimeMachine on your Mac, go back to just before you saved. You will lose any changes you made after but you can pull the file before you rasterized all the text. 

[Bunny Photos]

Hmmm, it looks like I need to redo the document if I want to make changes.  Thank you all for your help!

 

 

[walt.farrell]

It would be useful to see your Layers panel.

[Bunny Photos]

5 minutes ago, wonderings said:

Simple option if you have TimeMachine on your Mac, go back to just before you saved. You will lose any changes you made after but you can pull the file before you rasterized all the text. 

Wonderings:  That's a great idea--except that my external drive with Time Machine died about a month ago, and I didn't replace it.  😞

[Bunny Photos]

Here's the screenshot with the layers panel--all of the Text boxes have disappeared.  When I exported to pdf, I think I clicked flatten document and it seems there is no going back since I didn't save history with the file.

[Old Bruce]

That is an image, a photograph, of the text.

[wonderings]

5 minutes ago, Bunny Photos said:

Wonderings:  That's a great idea--except that my external drive with Time Machine died about a month ago, and I didn't replace it.  😞

You never need a backup till you do! I would at least get one in place right away before anything else happens. 

Personally I would reset at this point. Looks like you hymns are public domain so you can just google for the words and do the minor formatting to get you back where you need to be.

[Bunny Photos]

1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:

That is an image, a photograph, of the text.

Yes--I don't know how to get it back to it being a text box.

[Bunny Photos]

1 minute ago, wonderings said:

You never need a backup till you do! I would at least get one in place right away before anything else happens. 

Personally I would reset at this point. Looks like you hymns are public domain so you can just google for the words and do the minor formatting to get you back where you need to be.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'll do.  Just what I did wrong so I don't do this again, but now I understand.  Thank you!

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Bunny Photos said:

Here's the screenshot with the layers panel--all of the Text boxes have disappeared.  When I exported to pdf, I think I clicked flatten document and it seems there is no going back since I didn't save history with the file.

What did you between that screen shot and the prior one? The prior one had (it seemed) a text frame and (perhaps) the image.

As for exporting to PDF: You should also save your .afpub file for reworking later, rather than depending on the content of the PDF for later work.

[Bunny Photos]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

What did you between that screen shot and the prior one? The prior one had (it seemed) a text frame and (perhaps) the image.

As for exporting to PDF: You should also save your .afpub file for reworking later, rather than depending on the content of the PDF for later work.

There are four pages to the document, and whatever I did to the document when I exported it to a pdf file, it changed each page's text boxes to something different.  I really have no idea what happened, so I'm trying to figure it out so I don't do the same thing next time.  It seems that it turned all my text boxes into images.  

Wait...Oh my goodness!  #walt.farrell--you are A GENIUS!!!  I just went to check my files, and it looks like publisher saved two files.  One as a rasterized file and it saved the original one where I still have all of my text boxes!  Woohoo!  Thank you thank you for helping me!  I could have gone back and copied all the lyrics and program, but it would have been an hour's worth of work since copying from the web always makes the formatting wonky.  This is so great!  Love this forum.  Thank you everyone! Made my day!

[Bunny Photos]