Karin2019 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 (edited) I'm a new Affinty Photo user, after years of photoshop cc After the recent update i can't edit my text layer any more. My files are being opened as a regular pixel layer. I was able to do it in the previous version. The following things i checked/did: Affinity Photo Preferences, General section and check Import PSD text as text rather than bitmap. (it is still checked like before) I restarted the pc. I don't know if it is a bug, but i really need to edit my text layers Thx! Edited June 12, 2019 by Karin2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 13, 2019 Hi Karin2019, welcome to the Affinity Forums. Would you mind uploading one of your files from 1.6 (untouched by 1.7) so we can investigate? If they are private, please use this Dropbox folder which only QA/Dev can see Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin2019 Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hi Chris, Thank you Just send you one. Hope it is a good one, i can't open to check it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin2019 Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Another thing i noticed i'm working on a file and everything is fine (except the text editing), than after a little while i can't resize, rotate or drag a layer. I have to save, close and restart the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hi Karin2019, I opened the PSD in Photoshop and I cannot edit the text in there either. If the text is already a bitmap in Photoshop, it would suggest that this file has been saved in 1.7 (after the text was converted to bitmap). Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin2019 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) The file was last opened on 28 may 2019, that's before the update (right?) The file was made in Affinty. I'm only using Affinity for a few weeks, so i don't have that many files made in Affinity. New files have the same problem. Text layers will open as bitmap / pixel layer, despite the "import as text .." is checked. Edited June 15, 2019 by Karin2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin2019 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 Okay... sorry once again it's me. Just discovered something. Text is NOT editable when i use "export as psd" Text is editable when i use "save as (affinty files)" So now i can edit my new (text) files, but not my old ones made in PS ore in the previous version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 16 minutes ago, Karin2019 said: So now i can edit my new (text) files, but not my old ones made in PS You can edit the text in any Affinity file, old or new, but you cannot edit text in a PSD file unless you’ve chosen the option (under Preferences) to import PSD text as editable text. By default, PSD text is imported as an image to ensure that its appearance is preserved. You cannot export to editable PSD text from the Affinity apps. If you need to create output with editable text, choose a different export format such as PDF. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin2019 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 Okay thank you I still don't understand everything, but that's probalby my lack in experience in Affinity. I think i did the same things in the previous version and was able to edit the text (after i found out about the checkbox "import psd text as ..." Thanks for the help, appreciate that Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickershock Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 @Alfred Do you know whether this inability to preserve text as text when exporting to PSD is an Adobe restriction or an Affinity restriction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 It's an Affinity PSD file handling restriction , since Adobe PS etc. of course can keep text as editable text for their own file format. Thus it's more a matter of PSD format parsing (reading) and code generation (writing) in this case. Alfred 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 1 hour ago, v_kyr said: Thus it's more a matter of PSD format parsing (reading) and code generation (writing) in this case. And further complicated by the fact that the PSD file format is complex, changes frequently, and is not completely documented by Adobe. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Problem is that even text layer in PSD created by Affinity will be loaded as pixel. This happens even if import PSD text as editable text option in Preferences is enabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, ashf said: Problem is that even text layer in PSD created by Affinity will be loaded as pixel. This happens even if import PSD text as editable text option in Preferences is enabled. That’s to be expected. The Affinity apps can import PSD text as editable text, but when you export to PSD you won’t have any text in the exported file. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 @AlfredOk... Then this needs to be improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Pixelmator can import/export PSD with editable text layer for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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