jaydrayer Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 I'm new to Affinity Designer and really struggling. Is there a tutorial on editing text in an eps file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 7, 2018 Hi jaydrayer, Welcome to Affinity Forums Affinity is not able to import text as editable text from an EPS file (currently we don't support embedded fonts). If you check the layers in the Layers panel you will note that all letters were converted to curves (paths) and are identified as such (between parenthesis) there. Adobe Illustrator is usually able to do it because it embeds an Ai file inside the EPS which is what it uses to load the file and keep everything editable. We don't have access to this data as it's closed/proprietary. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joern_ki Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 i just read this post now... and i have to say, i'm a user of coreldraw since roundabout 25 years. they had the option of embedding fonts in their EPS-exportfilter since the beginning, and the import of EPS files with embedded fonts has been working from the start, too. there was always the choice of importing text as vectors or as text for editing it. in the most cases (99 %) everything's been fine, especially if the fonts were installed - in other cases there has been the choice of panose as you use it in the PDF importfilter. so what's the problem with creating EPS import- and exportfilters with editable text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 13, 2019 Hi joern_ki, Welcome to Affinity Forums It's a question of time/dev resources. Some tasks/features take considerable time and testing to implement. We have achieved quite a lot during these last years but it's not possible to get everything from the start otherwise the apps would never be launched. We don't support embedded fonts in PDF's either. Hopefully things will get better as development continues. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Traveler Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Well it bites that Affinity is not able to edit text in eps. I guess I will have to get Photoshop after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondeth Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Hi everone 😊 Is there any news about editing text in *.eps files? Just bought Affinity Designer a few days ago and now searched the forums after struggling with the non-editable text in those files... Is it really still not possible to import *.eps files with text as editable text in 2021? (in v2.0 maybe?) Affinity Designer is really an awesome tool but this is a core thing (in my opinion) as most of the *.eps templates we're working with require text editing 😕 Best regards 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 On 2/10/2021 at 11:54 PM, Ondeth said: Is there any news about editing text in *.eps files? 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...
shinebox Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 On 8/13/2019 at 11:41 AM, MEB said: Hi joern_ki, Welcome to Affinity Forums It's a question of time/dev resources. Some tasks/features take considerable time and testing to implement. We have achieved quite a lot during these last years but it's not possible to get everything from the start otherwise the apps would never be launched. We don't support embedded fonts in PDF's either. Hopefully things will get better as development continues. When exporting an EPS from Designer... are the fonts preserved? For example, if someone opened a Designer EPS export in AI, would the text be editable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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