Ludmila Shovkoplyas Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Hi, I have a problem with exporting in PSD. When I do export in psd design with text layers and then I open this file in Photoshop layers with text not editable .... It's a huge problem. I can't work without editable text. How can you help me with this? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 7, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2017 Hi Ludmila Shovkoplyas, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently Affinity apps are only able to import PSD text as editable text. We do intend to add export as well but this is a complex task and may still take a while until it's ready. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.bannu Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 OMG, this is one of the reasons for which I bought Affinity, I even asked before purhcasing if it exports to psd while keeping everythign intact. Is there an expected date for this update? I have to provide PSD files to web developers, otherwise I can't use Affinity unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela G. Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 On 02/01/2018 at 3:13 PM, chris.bannu said: OMG, this is one of the reasons for which I bought Affinity, I even asked before purhcasing if it exports to psd while keeping everythign intact. Is there an expected date for this update? I have to provide PSD files to web developers, otherwise I can't use Affinity unfortunately. Hello, I have the exact same problem! Is there any news about when this will be fixed? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 25, 2018 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2018 @Gabriela G. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. I do not think that this is being worked on at the moment, so there is no news at the moment. When this is added it will appear in a customer beta first, that you will find in the beta forums, where a list of new features and fixes are given in the beta announcement threads, which are pinned at the top of the relevant sub-forum. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.bannu Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 @Gabriela G. Unfortunately no. Personally I found an idiotic workaround, but it's very time consuming. Export the text only to pdf from Affinity -> Open in Illustrator -> Save as AI -> Open in Fireworks -> tweak the text (recreate the parts with more than 1 line of text) -> Export to psd -> Copy to the desired PSD -> Organize the text in the right layers. It's the only way As silly as it sounds, I still prefer Affinity over PSD, even if I have to do all of the above. It's a great software, you'll fall inlove with it. After they add this feature I will build an Affinity temple in my city Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 I need this feature - when I export to PSD all the layers are being rasterised, no editable text - any timescale on when this will be inncluded in Designer please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.bannu Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 We all need this feature To be honest I don't think that's gonna happen, so I guess we still need to use that piece of s@#$ photoshop as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidtch Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Hi, It is well explained here : AD >> PDF >> AI >> PSD https://markanten.de/psd-from-designer-with-texts/ firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habibi Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Many of us need to solve that text export issue or stop using PSD*, in my weekly agile flow I need text properties to give enought specifications in hand-offs with IT team, they use https://psdetch.com/ that gives information about every layer in PSD. The solution Designer » PDF » Illustrator » PSD requires an additional license. When I discovered Affinity Designer I love the way you can work with "responsive" content and libraries, but I never used Pixel or Export personas for UI design**. Sure you know Figma, they have quite nice interaction development (limited but very usable) and hand-off sharing specifications, nice to have options. *It'll be near perfect if we can use SVG multilayer to give hand-off specifications :) **Yeah I know it's a very specific use of Affinity :D Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted June 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 17, 2019 @Habibi Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums Thanks for your input on this thread and that useful link. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 ok... maybe I'm crazy but today a client send me PSD files with editable text and they open fine in Affinity Photo... anyone can confirm the same? I'm not kidding, They open fine!! Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 50 minutes ago, albertkinng said: ok... maybe I'm crazy but today a client send me PSD files with editable text and they open fine in Affinity Photo... anyone can confirm the same? I'm not kidding, They open fine!! Affinity can import text in PSD as editable but can not export text in PSD as editable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Oooh... yes yes... you’re right. Sorry, my bad Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobTheDev Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Can't believe it's 2022 and we still can't export text in PSDs... difficult to supply a file to a client when all they have is Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 3 hours ago, JacobTheDev said: Can't believe it's 2022 and we still can't export text in PSDs... difficult to supply a file to a client when all they have is Photoshop. The problem is Adobe does not publish complete specs for all the different ways text can be encoded into its proprietary PSD file format. That has changed several times over the years & now is so complex that essentially no app besides PS supports all of them, not even Adobe's other apps. Of course, Adobe benefits from this, so it is unlikely that they will cooperate with Serif or anybody else who tries to reverse engineer the specs, & may at any time even change some of them just enough to break whatever works now. Alfred 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 6 hours ago, R C-R said: The problem is Adobe does not publish complete specs for all the different ways text can be encoded into its proprietary PSD file format. That has changed several times over the years & now is so complex that essentially no app besides PS supports all of them, not even Adobe's other apps. Of course, Adobe benefits from this, so it is unlikely that they will cooperate with Serif or anybody else who tries to reverse engineer the specs, & may at any time even change some of them just enough to break whatever works now. That may be true in a 50/50 way. Photopea, pixelmator and others can export in editable PSD texts. So it’s not that Serif can’t do it. I think Affinity’s tools are still in version 1 for a reason. Adobe has been copying all of the amazing work that Serif has been doing and maybe that’s why Serif is holding on that feature. Affinity Suite is the only suite that is turning Adobe fans into quitting their Adobe-addiction and move to Affinity. Maybe they don’t want a legal battle with Adobe or they are flirting with Adobe to sell the engines and upgrade Adobe to other standards. The thing is they can do this in one night of code and it’s not happening because they don’t want it. Maybe they want to have a “one more thing” to version 2.0 Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 3 hours ago, albertkinng said: That may be true in a 50/50 way. Photopea, pixelmator and others can export in editable PSD texts. So it’s not that Serif can’t do it. Yes, Serif has told us that they don't have a time to implement it yet. and not because it's not possible. But I think it's not just that but also they don't have budget to implement it now since they don't have enough income. They have been holding paid upgrade so long that's why the development is stalled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I know if they are ready to launch 2.0 all of us are ready to put out the money to upgrade. Affinity suite has been the software that bring again that excitement that Adobe used to bring back in the old days! Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanGG Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Serif, can we please get a response to this issue. Not just the typical "This isn't a feature, but we'd like to add this later..."Has this been developed at ALL in the past 5 years? Will we ever see this? Just give us something... For the Affinity Suite to even be VIABLE professionally in a team, exporting editable text to PSD is a must. I advocate Affinity anytime I speak to my agency, but they're Adobe users of 15+ years - so expecting them to immediately switch isn't realistic. With that being said, the standard isn't going to change - so if Affinity can disrupt the typical Adobe workflow, that's when Affinity could start to overtake the market. albertkinng 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Export your Affinity Photo file as a Print Ready PDF and go to Photopea.com and drop your file there, then just export the file as a PSD file and it will be editable. If you have Automator app or Keyboard maestro app you will be able to create a one click option for your files. In my case I created a folder with Automator that every file that I save there it will do all the process automatically. Hope that helps. Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 48 minutes ago, albertkinng said: Export your Affinity Photo file as a Print Ready PDF and go to Photopea.com It may be simpler than that: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertkinng Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: It may be simpler than that: Well, now I update the code. Just saving the file will get me the PSD editable!! Thanks Quote See my comics: dearmascomics.com Heard my Radio Show: mimegaradio.com Ask for my services: albertkinng.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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