Zero1 Posted May 4 Posted May 4 When the Show all text menu item is used from the Text menu, it also shows disabled (hidden) text. Is this default behaviour? If so, how you we restore the document, to hide the disabled texts again (except enabling/disabling the disabled text layers one by one) See below, the text 2 and 4 are disabled in the layers panel, but still being shown after show all text has been applied. Quote
RE4LLY Posted May 4 Posted May 4 As far as I can see, the layer visibility is actually toggled on for all text layers by using the "Show all Text" option in Affinity Photo, it just does not visually update in the Layer panel unless you actually trigger an update by making a change to one layer in the layer panel (This should probably be marked as a bug). So you will have to go through the individual layers and turn their visibility back off. After all the whole point of the "Show all Text" option is to enable the visibility for any text object in your document independent of it's current visibility status (similar to the "Show All" layer option). R C-R 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 5 Posted May 5 18 hours ago, RE4LLY said: As far as I can see, the layer visibility is actually toggled on for all text layers by using the "Show all Text" option in Affinity Photo I do not see a "Show All Text" action/option in any of the Affinity applications, at least on Windows. Can you show me a screenshot to help me find it, please? 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
carl123 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I do not see a "Show All Text" action/option in any of the Affinity applications, at least on Windows. It's in APhoto under the Text menu walt.farrell 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.
thomaso Posted May 5 Posted May 5 18 hours ago, RE4LLY said: it just does not visually update in the Layer panel unless you actually trigger an update by making a change to one layer in the layer panel (This should probably be marked as a bug). FWIW, this update/redraw issue of the layer's visibility setting in the Layers panel is an issue since V1, requiring any user action in the Layers panel (panel options included) to show text layer's visibility ticked after selecting "Show All Text". RE4LLY 1 Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
R C-R Posted May 5 Posted May 5 6 hours ago, carl123 said: It's in APhoto under the Text menu Also in the Photo persona of Affinity Publisher. It seems weird that it is not also in the Publisher persona. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted May 5 Posted May 5 On 5/4/2025 at 12:46 PM, RE4LLY said: it just does not visually update in the Layer panel unless you actually trigger an update by making a change to one layer in the layer panel (This should probably be marked as a bug). I agree it seems like a bug. By the way, you don't to make a change; just switch away from the Layers panel to some other panel in that row of the Studio, and back again. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
R C-R Posted May 5 Posted May 5 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: By the way, you don't to make a change; just switch away from the Layers panel to some other panel in that row of the Studio, and back again. That does not work for me on my Mac. This may or may not be because I float the Layers panel along with the Text Styles & a few other panels rather than attaching them to the workspace window. EDIT: Nope. Even if I drag the Layers panel into one of the attached panel groups switching does not fix it. I also tried double-clicking on the Layers name to collapse that group & then single-clicking to bring it back & that also dod not work. So far, the only thing that does other than toggling the visibility of each hidden layer back to visible is to save, close, & reopen the file. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted May 5 Posted May 5 1 minute ago, R C-R said: This may or may not be because I float the Layers panel along with the Text Styles & a few other panels Is it floating all by itself, or along with some other panel in the same group? If it's by itself, then you can't switch to another panel on that row, and thus that workaround can't apply. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
R C-R Posted May 5 Posted May 5 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Is it floating all by itself, or along with some other panel in the same group? As I said, the Layers, Text Style, & others are in that group. Also see the edit I did to that post for more about it not working even if not floated. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
R C-R Posted May 5 Posted May 5 One other thing that does work for me is to toggle the lock on any Text object in the Layers panel (showing hidden or not) & that seem to force the redraw with the correct visibility indicators. (Same for Hide All Text.) Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Oufti Posted May 5 Posted May 5 On 5/4/2025 at 5:24 PM, Zero1 said: If so, how you we restore the document, to hide the disabled texts again (except enabling/disabling the disabled text layers one by one) You can use the States panel before "Showing all text" in order to capture (and restore later) the current visibility for (part or all of) your layers. https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/statesPanel.html Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue.
Zero1 Posted May 5 Author Posted May 5 1 hour ago, Oufti said: You can use the States panel before "Showing all text" in order to capture (and restore later) the current visibility for (part or all of) your layers. https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/statesPanel.html Yes you probably could, but it's kind of an overkill 3 hours ago, R C-R said: One other thing that does work for me is to toggle the lock on any Text object in the Layers panel (showing hidden or not) & that seem to force the redraw with the correct visibility indicators. (Same for Hide All Text.) Thanks! That sounds like be a good temporary solution. Reading the comments above, it seems like a bug (since v1). Hopefully this will get fixed in future releases. Quote
Staff NathanC Posted May 13 Staff Posted May 13 Hi @Zero1, This issue has now been logged with the developers, thanks for your report. 🙂 Quote
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