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October 17, 2018

P: I have no text cursor/highlight, no bounding boxes, or selection edges working on CMYK documents

  • October 17, 2018
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I just updated photoshop to 2019 20.0 and now the text tool is misbehaving. I see no cursor and I can't select tpe. There is just nothing. I obviously disabled the stupid lorum ipsum nonsense, so when I click with the text tool, there is absolutely no indicatation that anything is happening. My coworker has the same problem and reset his preferences which fixed nothing.
Running Sierra 10.12.6

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Known Participant
October 30, 2020

I have this issue with type fill unchecked (22.0.0 release Mac mini 2018 OS 10.14.6)

Inspiring
October 26, 2020

Just updated to 2021. Same problem for me. No curser, highlighted text, or text bounding boxes in CMYK mode. Control+H doesn't work either. 

Inspiring
October 26, 2020

Colin, you can turn off the placeholder text in Preferences. Go Preferences>Type>Fill new type layers with placeholder text, and uncheck the box.

Legend
October 25, 2020
Lance021
Participating Frequently
October 25, 2020

Great, it looks like a temporary solution, it worked. Thanks!

Inspiring
October 25, 2020

converting to RGB does the job but now what?? We can't work on CMYK images with text?? WTH?? 

David Mohr
Participating Frequently
October 23, 2020

Hi Colin,

By chance do you have any of the following fonts on your machine: Cottonwood Semi Bold, Courier Condensed Bold, or Umbra Thin?

Thanks,

David

Inspiring
October 23, 2020

So I updated to the very latest version and now as well as the stupid opsum rubbish I have no text cursor and cannot do SIMPLE text layers. Funnily enough the impossible task in PS took me 10 seconds in Procreate. Go Figure where my subscription plan is headed. What is the point of paying for a 'professionals' tool if it can't even do the basics?

Wabber_HM
Inspiring
October 21, 2020

I looked through this bug's discussion and the workarounds didn't work for me. This isn't an RGB/CMYK issue. It might have to do with 3D acceleration being enabled? I am on a laptop, Intel HD Graphics 520.

Earth Oliver
Legend
October 21, 2020

thanks for the verification. I went ahead and started up a new bug report about the issue.