Could not complete your request because the layer is not a valid text layer.

[Greg_L...@adobeforums.com]

I just installed CS on an XP machine that has Photoshop 7 on it. I tried to open version 7 PSD files in CS and got the error "Could not complete your request because the layer is not a valid text layer." After some research I tried updating 7 to 7.01. After I updated to 7.01 and opened the PSD file in question then saved it again I still get the error in CS when trying to open the version 7 PSD file.

SUGGESTIONS?

[Walter Donavan]

Well, perhaps it is text saved as bitmap. That's not a valid text layer.

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Walter Donavan
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[Greg_L...@adobeforums.com]

Bump..

Anyone?

[Robert...@adobeforums.com]

Perhaps a bad font? Try changing it and see what happens.

Bob

[Greg_L...@adobeforums.com]

This is turning out to be an issue for me. I am sure it is an issue for others as well.

Just about ALL of the .PSD files I have downloaded from the web for templates of one thing or another give me this error.

This might have been an error in 7, but I didnt notice it and it renders CS basically worthless to me. Is one supposed to keep both 7 and CS loaded at the same time?

I have tried opening it in 7.01 resaving it, then having it open in CS but I get the SAME error on ALL of these .PDF files I have tried that have TEXT in them.

[Greg_L...@adobeforums.com]

bump

[Greg_L...@adobeforums.com]

Bump up my message :)

[Grass_...@adobeforums.com]

Greg,
Bob suggested that you try to changing the specific font, did you try this?

The next question is, do you have the font on your system? There have been times that I would get this sort of message from a file I had created earlier, but later didn't have the font on my machine. PS would substitute the font nearest to that style for me.

Can you upload a .psd file that is giving you troubles so that one of us can download it and check it out? That might be very helpful in trying to sort this out.

grasshopper

[mao...@adobeforums.com]

Read the topic
open PS 7.0 files on PS CS ME
you will find it at first page in this forum
cause this is the only way to get the rid of it
but you will lose your Text layers

maoten "open PS 7.0 files on PS CS ME" 6/20/04 3:35am </cgi-bin/webx?50@@.3bb4af9b>

[Mhran_...@adobeforums.com]

I have the same problem every PSD file with text layer insid the photoshop CS can not open it the the same massage apears "Could not complete your request because the layer is not a valid text layer."
in the photoshop 7.0 it's work very well so i have to install the both photoshop CS & 7.0 in my computer any one can say whay ????
please help .
I try all the thing you say it is the same computer on the same windows at the same time.
now i create a PSD file on Photoshop 7.0 with text layer in Arial font in english and save it then i try to open it with the Photoshop CS it give me the same error massage. think the problem i Photoshop CS not in any other.

[Mhran_...@adobeforums.com]

"Could not complete your request because the layer is not a valid text layer."

this massage will apear when you open a PSD file with text layer you created in older photoshop tell now every one i know who install the photoshop CS have the same problem.
my files work very well in photoshop 7.0 ME so do i have to install the both photoshop CS & 7.0 ME in my computer ???
now i try to creat a file on Photoshop 7.0 and i add a text layer on it in english with the font Arial then i save the file.
and i try to open the file in Photoshop CS and the same erorr massage "Could not complete your request because the layer is not a valid text layer." !!!???? on the same computer on the same windows at the same time.

[LenH...@adobeforums.com]

Mhran,

That may be due to going from 7 ME to CS - I can't test because I don't have
7ME, but I cannot reproduce your problem going from PS 7.1 (International
English) to CS (International English)

PS Please do NOT post the same question in Multiple Topics - Your duplicates have been deleted

[Mhran_...@adobeforums.com]

thanks

[OY...@adobeforums.com]

I'm trying to help another gentleman with this same problem on a different forum. He e-mailed me one of the psd's he was having trouble with, and I was able to open it on my version of CS with no problems. I got that notice that asks you to update your text layers, when I clicked update it worked fine. It seems to just be a problem with the Middle Eastern version of CS.

There are screen shots and such at the following link: <http://www.photoshopforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=985>

Maybe that thread can spark some new ideas. Sorry if it's against the rules to plug other forums.