"Invalid Text Layer" error message upon opening Photoshop 7 docs.???

JD
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James_Darling
May 18, 2004
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Recently, Photoshop 7 was installed on my Mac where I work.

Almost immediately, I began getting an error message upon opening my Photoshop files. It tells me – before I can open the file – that an error was encountered….. that "layer (blankety-blank) is not a valid text layer. The existing pixel data will be used instead."

So… unless I never ever want to open the file again, I must click "OK", and my text layer is rendered uneditible, as the text was basically rasterized.

This happens nearly on a daily basis. It’s rather indiscriminate with the files it "chooses" to encounter this "error" with.

I thought that it may have had something to do with my opening Photoshop 6 files into the new version, and some corruption resulting from the cross-over. But, it happens to new files created with version 7, too.

Anyone have this happen to them? Can anyone help? It has become a treacherous glitch for me.

Thanks!

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Chris_Cox
May 18, 2004
You did install 7.0.1, right?
JD
James_Darling
May 19, 2004
I didn’t perform the installation myself.

You think I should have them re-install?
JD
James_Darling
May 19, 2004
Hi…

Sorry, I mis-read your reply.

Version 7.0 was installed. Not 7.0.1.
CC
Chris_Cox
May 19, 2004
Then you need to get the 7.0.1 update and install it.
JD
James_Darling
May 19, 2004
Ok, thanks! I will tell them to do that.
JD
James_Darling
May 19, 2004
You’re brilliant! This was the first entry in the list of things that this 7.0.1 update corrects:

• Type layers are no longer rasterized unnecessarily.

Thanks, again!
MO
Mike_Ornellas
May 19, 2004
yea, he actually is, but try not to tell him it too much because it will got to ones head.

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