"Edit text" greyed out

[Krenzathal]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if someone can help me with a problem I keep running into in PSP X4.

I create my text as a vector and after I apply the text I can usually right click on it with the Pick tool and select "Edit Text" if I want to change something but after I do that once the "Edit text" selection is greyed out when I right click the selection again and I can't pick it.

I haven't changed it to a raster or anything and it just seems to do this automatically which is incredibly frustrating as I usually have to type out all the text again.

Any advice?

Many thanks!

[Kathy_9]

It sounds like maybe the Pick tool has lost focus. Try clicking on the Pick tool and you should see the bounding box around the text. Now right-click and see if the Edit Text option is available.

[Krenzathal]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried the suggestion but it's still the same. I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong as sometimes I right click on the text and I can edit as many times as I want and sometimes I can't. I've honestly not changed a thing and it's all vectors.

EDIT: I seem to have found a temporary solution but it is incredibly clumsy and cumbersome.

It seems I have to select the background layer first and then zoom all the way in so that I can place the cursor inside a piece of text (as in the filled coloured part of a letter) and then left click to select the text and THEN wait for the move symbol to appear and then right click.

I don't see why I can't just select the text object from the layers tab on the right and then just right click on the text object but as I say the "Edit Text" option is greyed out if I do it that way. It seems like a bug to me but I honestly can't see what I've missed.

I'm still interested in a solution if anyone has one as this way of doing things is absolute murder so any further help would be much appreciated.

[hartpaul]

An alternative way of editing your text:
look at your layers palette and you will see your text on a vector layer.
To the left you will see a + left click that and another layer will drop down and have a T and a few words of your text there.
Double click that layer and you will be in edit text mode.