P: Character leading broken

> Bumping as it seems mad it has taken two weeks for Adobe to address such a massive problem.>

If features weren't interdependent, bugs wouldn't happen when they added/changed code to give us a new feature. Using one feature couldn't possibly break a workflow when we used another older feature.

But they are interdependent, and given that they typically only show up with a given workflow, not with all the workflows we collectively depend upon, does anyone really want such a quick fix that more workflows are broken because Adobe "rushed it out the door and didn't test it thoroughly?" That's been everyone's biggest complaint—that  Adobe doesn't care enough to test features and just rushes them out in any old state. Now the complaint after a week or so waiting is it's taking too long to fix and test?

If we don't have any patience for the "fixes," we're certainly always going to find they're breaking someone's preferred workflow—or worse.

> Potentially rolling back to 2017 if no fix supplied soon. Not great for a very expensive product.>

You don't have to roll back anything. Just re-install 2017 if you uninstalled it. Use that for type. Use whatever features work for you that you want in 2018 or ignore it until there's an update. They can run concurrently.

It's common practice that after big annual version follows smaller bug fix version. These version fixes broken things in major version and usually it takes few weeks. It also fixes several bugs, not only one bug. So we're probably waiting for Adobe to make a bigger bundle of fixed bugs.

It same story every year 🙂 I recommend to all uncheck "remove old version" while update process. So you have both version with same settings. Save time for using new version is after delivering small bug fix version. 

Bumping as it seems mad it has taken two weeks for Adobe to address such a massive problem. The workarounds described are temporary at best and incredibly maddening to have to adjust for a long-honed workflow. Potentially rolling back to 2017 if no fix supplied soon. Not great for a very expensive product.

Howdy Tami,

Yes, Dave Chapman is correct -- this bug impacts transformed text.  Unfortunately, unless you create new text from scratch, it's often hard to recognize if a given chunk of text has been transformed.  A lot of people do not realize that if you resize the bounding box to change the point size of text, you've actually transformed the text.  The bug lies in the math that displays the values in the Leading control for transformed text.  But as many other users have already confirmed, if you use untransformed text, there is no issue.  Please see Lori Kraut's comment below for other workarounds.

Thanks,
David

I agree. I am sure Adobe will be working on it.

Yes this works but, it's a workaround. It should be fixed.

- Copy the content in the text box
- Delete the text box
- Create a new text box
- Paste the text in to the new text box

The reason why it bugs is because you have resized the text box using the Move tool.

- Copy the content in the text box
- Delete the text box
- Create a new text box
- Paste the text in to the new text box

The reason why it bugs is because you have resized the text box using the Move tool.

i can't change the text leading to any random number or paste a number, i have to choose from the drop-down menu only.

When I use the arrow keys on the keyboard to increase or decrease line-spacing in photoshop, the increments only INCREASE and they're in HUGE increments.

If I start at 6pt then, click the UP arrow - I go to 94.26pt


then, if I click UP again, I'm at 1282.7pt.


I'm also unable to decrease by using the DOWN arrow. If I do, the number increases again:

I've reset all my preferences. I've re-booted the computer. Still NOTHING. 

What gives? This is a pretty standard feature. Is there an ALIGN TO GRID setting or something - like there is in Illustrator?

Please help.