Paint Shop Pro X4 question

[jessica31876]

Ughh second time tonight my program has frozen. I am trying to do the font as a selection not as a vector layer and it keeps coming up with a script error and then freezing. I hate the way the type tool works on the new PSP. Anyone else tried doing this? Does it freeze like that for you?

[LJSDesigns]

If mine is going to freeze, it usually does it while I am working with the type tool, and it drives me crazy too. I always do it as a vector selection though.

[EvaK]

I think the typing tool in both PSP and CS must take a lot of extra memory to run or something. I have had problems using it in both programs -- either freezing up -- or going so slow that it drives me crazy. I prefer to use the text tool in PSP over CS5. I find it much more user friendly. I always use it in the vector mode -- so unsure what the problem is specifically for you. Hope you figure it out.

[ZaCola3]

Hummm I have X3 and I always do my text as a vector layer-that might be your issue.

[EvaK]

I use PSPX2 and if I want my text as a selection I type it out in a vector layer -- then press CTRL+SHIFT+B -- which puts the selection "ants" around it -- and then I promote it to it's own layer (CTRL+SHIFT+P) and go from there. Not sure if that will work for what you need or not.

[jessica31876]

Yes Eva that is what I ended up doing. I do not know why but when I tried to make it a selection and not the font it just kept giving me a script error. Thank you though. Hope they get that fixed. I really like the older versions for using the text tool.