Re: Problems editing text in a Photoshop file

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Message-ID:<1183495423.865720.238130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
stephentimko@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have to edit files set up in Photoshop. The Gimp works for
everything except one problem I can't figure out how to solve. The
Photoshop files have text layers. I need to be able to change the
words of the text using the same exact features as set up in
PhotoShop. I can call the files up, select the text layers and erase
the text, but I can't figure out how to then type in text so it has
the same characteristics as it had in Photoshop. And I don't have time
or the smarts to go through each one and try to set it up the same
way.
So what am I missing that I can't edit text in a Photoshop file?

From the GIMP help:
Now suppose you create a text layer, and then operate on it in
some way that does not involve the Text tool: rotate it, for
example. Suppose you then come back and try to edit it using the
Text tool. As soon as you edit the text, the Text tool will redraw
the layer, wiping out the results of the operations you performed
in the meantime.

As long as a text layer *is* a text layer, I can modify the
text. However, even with one created in GIMP, as soon as I merge
it down, it can't be edited.

I have two guesses, neither of which helps you do what you
want:

1. Photoshop saves the text as images; or

2. GIMP *reads* Photoshop text as images.

The above are guesses, but are consistent with the file you
uploaded. For your sake, I hope one of the gurus has a better
answer.

....

A bit of Googling on
psd text gimp
brings up a bunch of hits. Unfortunately, all of them that I read
imply or state:
psd text layers aren't dynamically editable in the Gimp. The Gimp will merely render the
text layers as pixels.

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