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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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

Can you share an example PSD in order to reproduce that behavior?

AFAI recall imported objects from PSD files are often wrong positioned in terms of their initial x,y starting positions.

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Okay, I attached the PSD of a simple logo, along with the exported PNG of the same to show how it should look. When imported into Affinity Photo, the large 'g' is not centered but is instead in the upper right, and the two curved sections have incorrect starting x,y and (most critically) are rail-straight.

granworks-logo-II-800px.png

granworks-logo-II-800px.psd

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Posted

Hi @Kurt Granroth,

This is a known issue. 

The problem is to do with Text on a path in PSD.  I'll update the report with have with the Dev team and include a link back to this thread, i'll also move this post to the bug sections of the Forums :) 

 

 

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I was very excited to know that i could import psds but then was very disappointed to know that the text imports incorrectly at the wrong placement, but also does not maintain it's same spacing and orientation as well. So im having the same problem except the additional issues are the spacing of the font especially if i have multiple lines of text. it imports with no spacing between lines. Very annoying. As i was doing research it appears that this problem has is existed for many years...so the question now is...when will it get fixed. I want to ditch adobe products completely but it seems like im going to have to hang out to it for a little longer for existing work im working on. Could this not be fixed soon???

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Posted

Hi @Trosum,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Do you mind sharing the PSD file to be inspected please? I can provide you an upload link if you wish to keep the file private - just let me know.
PSD is a proprietary/closed format, we are doing our best to constantly improve our import/export routines but there's still features that are quite complex to implement without proper documentation. Reverse engineering the format takes time and Adobe can always change/tweak their formats so it's a bit of a moving target.
Thanks for your report. 

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