P: Character leading broken

How its possible to go back?

Getting the same problem and can't work like this

Same issues as everyone above. This needs to be fixed, asap! 

Thanks for the tip! That'll work for now.

Same here

It troubles me a lot since I just updated my Photoshop CC 2017 to 2018. Thank God I found this forum and realized I did not actually mess up with my Adobe products after updating them all. Guess I need to go back to 2017 until 2018 is completely bug free. (sigh) This what happens when I excitedly update apps without reading reviews about them first. I pray that AI doesn't have the same problem, or I'm dead.

Using Windows 10 here. It may not be a perfect workaround but I'd found that highlighting the text you want to adjust, even if transformed, and moving it by using the Alt+Up/Down (iirc Command instead of Alt on mac?) keys seems to at least give you some flexibility beyond it being completely broken.

It is definitely frustrating that I'm unable to use the input field but that shortcut has saved me from having to uninstall/reinstall PS and subsequently waste time on a typographic poster job.

You're correct with this until you Free Transform the text. At this point you can change the Leading value in the properties panel - but the numbers you enter will be changed once you hit enter. In my case they increase by around 30% of the number  you enter (so entering 10pt and pressing enter gets changed automatically to 12.95pt). This is also the case (once you have used the free transform tool) with the canned values in the drop down list. You can work around this by estimating and making allowances knowing Photoshop will automatically change the values - but its far from ideal.

Given you can and Adobe made it easy to install both - I'd still recommend re-installing PS2017 in tandem with 2018 and keep an eye on the Creative Cloud App for an update to the later.

Given the severity and annoyance of this bug - I'm hoping this will be in days rather than weeks. 

I'm having the same problem. Using MacOS Sierra.
Can't work!

Going back to 2017 version now

Hi Frederic,

What exact issues around Leading are you seeing with untransformed text in CC 2018?

There is the problem with Arrows no longer giving live previews, but other than that, everything should be fine.  I totally admit that if the text is transformed, then a serious issue occurs -- full disclosure: this is due to the math we're doing for the transform; it appears that someone changed when that happens so that it's now colliding with user input -- but otherwise, all should be good.

I asked about the version because in the video I noticed that there was a decimal indicator of a comma, so I wanted to rule out any internationalization issues before tackling this bug.

Thanks,
David