All Text Styles disappear when importing a file (Photo and Designer)

[Theseus]

On both Photo 2 and Designer 2, the default Text Styles disappear when importing a file. Only when creating a new file do the default text styles appear.

Expected behaviour: Importing a file (drag onto toolbar, or using "Open") must have all default Text Styles available. Just like in V1 of Photo and Designer.

To reproduce: Drag and drop a file (.png, .jpeg, any format) onto the toolbar, or open it using "File->Open". Text Styles will be empty and contain only "[No Style]" paragraph and character.

Creating a New file, or using "New From Clipboard" shows the expected behaviour of populating the Text Styles panel.

[NathanC]

Hi @Theseus,

I'm experiencing the exact same behaviour in V1 and V2 when opening .JPEGs, PNG, TIFF etc. files which will not open with the default text styles since as far as I'm aware this information isn't retained in the file formats metadata.

In V1 and V2 when I open a native .afphoto/afpub/afdesign file which contained text styles when it was originally created (such as via file > new which inserts the default styles), the text styles contained within are being correctly picked up.

[walt.farrell]

I think this behavior also applies to other file types that don't contain text style info, @NathanC. I've seen it with PDF files, for example, in V1 (and I expect in V2).

[Theseus]

This is still broken. It works as expected in Affinity v1: importing a picture or from clipboard gives you access to the text styles you have defined in the application.

Can you please fix it?

[MikeTO]

I think this feature is working as designed - Affinity loads text styles from the document but some formats, such as images, don't have text styles. However, it would be useful to be able to load the default styles even if you're going to save right back to a JPG and the styles won't be saved with the image.

I think it would be nice if Affinity had a new command in the Text Styles panel menu named Import Default Styles.

In the meantime, this is easy to workaround. Create a blank document with text styles (afphoto, afdesign, or afpub) and save it with the name Text Styles or whatever you like, stored in a convenient location. Whenever you want access to the default styles in an image or document without styles, simply choose Import Styles from the Text Styles panel menu and choose that file.

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, Theseus said:

This is still broken. It works as expected in Affinity v1: importing a picture or from clipboard gives you access to the text styles you have defined in the application.

Can you please fix it?

I believe that (as described above) it's working as intended. When you Open a file (assuming that's what you mean by "import") you only have the Text Styles that are present within that file. That would also apply to New from Clipboard.

And since files except .afphoto, .afdesign, .afpub, .aftemplate, .psd, and .ai do not contain Text Styles, if you Open one of them you won't have any.