Text no longer editable after update | pixel layer

[Karin2019]

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

[Chris B]

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  

[Karin2019]

Hi Chris,

Thank you

Just send you one. Hope it is a good one,  i can't open to check it

 

[Karin2019]

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. 

[Chris B]

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).

[Karin2019]

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

[Karin2019]

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.

[Alfred]

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.

[Karin2019]

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 

[stickershock]

@Alfred Do you know whether this inability to preserve text as text when exporting to PSD is an Adobe restriction or an Affinity restriction?

[v_kyr]

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.

[walt.farrell]

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.

[ashf]

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.
 

[Alfred]

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.

[ashf]

@AlfredOk... Then this needs to be improved.

[ashf]

Pixelmator can import/export PSD with editable text layer for example.