Raydar Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 Hi, Sometimes graphic designers send me .ai files which I open in Affinity, but the text layers show every single letter as a layer or sublayer, which makes it really hard to edit a sentence. Is there a setting that can turn this sub-layering off, so that layers just resolve back into coherent single layers that hold small chunks of text that are easily editable? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much. Ray Quote
Staff NathanC Posted April 24, 2024 Staff Posted April 24, 2024 Welcome to the forums @Raydar, Affinity can only read and parse the .PDF data stream contained within .AI files, so when importing .AI files you should be prompted with the 'PDF Options' menu when opening the document. In this dialog i'd recommend checking 'Favour editable text over fidelity' and 'Group Lines of text into text frames' and you should find that lines of text are grouped into singular frames for better text flow. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/GetStarted/importPDF.html Quote
MaynardWarren Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 4 hours ago, NathanC said: Welcome to the forums @Raydar, Affinity can only read and parse the .PDF data stream contained within .AI files, so when importing .AI files you should be prompted with the 'PDF Options' menu when opening the document. In this dialog i'd recommend checking 'Favour editable text over fidelity' and 'Group Lines of text into text frames' and you should find that lines of text are grouped into singular frames for better text flow. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/GetStarted/importPDF.html Thank you for answering, I will try it as you said and I hope it works for me. But if I still face any issue, I will update you by starting my own thread, I hope you won't mind. Quote
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