Andi Saitenhieb Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Accidentally I turned a text layer (Frame Text) into curves, that is each single letter is on it's own. How can I undo this (turn the text into one single text layer again)? Oh, and how did I actually do this (so I can prevent it from happening in the future ... 🙃)? I just clicked or double-clicked somewhere in the layer to change the text ... Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Edit > Undo should fix it, or moving backward in the History panel. As to how you did it, possibly you pressed Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Cmd+Return (Mac) while the text (or frame, possibly) was selected. Andi Saitenhieb 1 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Saitenhieb Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Edit > Undo should fix it, or moving backward in the History panel. As to how you did it, possibly you pressed Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Cmd+Return (Mac) while the text (or frame, possibly) was selected. Thank you for your reply, Walt! I know about the undo command, but that's not available anymore once the program was closed and restarted. My idea was that if it's possible to turn the Frame Text into curves, there must be a way to turn the curves back into a frame text ... Another question: Where can I find that history panel that you mentioned? In my Affinity Photo 2.3.1 there is only undo and redo under the edit tab, but no history. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 If using the Undo is no longer a possibility then there’s no way to turn the curves back into text because the software has no way of knowing which fonts (can be multiple fonts used in one frame) were used to create the text in the first place. A curve is just a curve. The History Panel, as with most other panels, can be shown via the Window menu, e.g. menu “Window → History”. Andi Saitenhieb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Saitenhieb Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 28 minutes ago, GarryP said: If using the Undo is no longer a possibility then there’s no way to turn the curves back into text because the software has no way of knowing which fonts (can be multiple fonts used in one frame) were used to create the text in the first place. A curve is just a curve. Thank you, Garry, that makes sense! The History Panel, as with most other panels, can be shown via the Window menu, e.g. menu “Window → History”. Great, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 You're welcome. There may be some tools out there on the web that can, up-to-a-point, convert curves back to text. If you really need to convert the curves back to text, and finding out how to do so would take less time than typing the text back in yourself, then it might be worth looking for them. Andi Saitenhieb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 3 hours ago, Andi Saitenhieb said: Oh, and how did I actually do this (so I can prevent it from happening in the future ... 🙃)? Go into shortcuts and remove the shortcut for Convert to Curves Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Cmd+Return (Mac) Andi Saitenhieb 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 55 minutes ago, GarryP said: There may be some tools out there on the web that can, up-to-a-point, convert curves back to text. On recent MacOS versions: export the text as bitmap image or make a screenshot QuickLook the image file in Finder click the OCR (optical character recognition) button in the bottom-right corner of the QuickLook preview window copy the recognized text as plain text, then you can format it again Andi Saitenhieb 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Saitenhieb Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 2 hours ago, GarryP said: You're welcome. There may be some tools out there on the web that can, up-to-a-point, convert curves back to text. If you really need to convert the curves back to text, and finding out how to do so would take less time than typing the text back in yourself, then it might be worth looking for them. Typing the text manually is much quicker. This convert-to-curve thing happened multiple times, so I thought I better understand it so I can prevent and undo it. As carl123 suggested: I'll remove the keyboard shortcut for convert to curve now ... 🙃 Thank you so much for helping a newbie with this trivial stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Saitenhieb Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 2 hours ago, carl123 said: Go into shortcuts and remove the shortcut for Convert to Curves Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Cmd+Return (Mac) Now that's a very good idea! I did that now. Is there a quicker way to find a keyboard shortcut than scrolling through all of them or doing a google search? In other software, there is a search for keystroke and search for command ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 The Affinity applications have no keyboard shortcut search facility, although one has been requested a few times, .e.g: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/194638-search-engine-in-keyboard-shortcuts/ The one you are looking for, in case anyone else wants to know, can be found in <application>/Layer/Convert to Curves, see attached image. Andi Saitenhieb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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