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Inspiring
January 22, 2013

P: Incorrect reporting of text size (in points) in PS 13.0.4 (Macintosh, OS X)

  • January 22, 2013
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I've opened a 72dpi CS5 PSD in Photoshop 13.0.4 (Mac, 64-bit), and what's a 12pt is reported as a 23pt text in the dialogs.

Here's where it gets strange.

I open the very same document in Photoshop 13.0.1.1 (Windows, 32-bit) and the same piece of text is correctly reported as 12pt.

Here's where it gets stranger.

If I create a blank 72dpi document in Photoshop 13.0.4 on Mac and create a 23pt text, it's rendered at the correct size (over twice bigger than the first document I spoke about).

But if I drag this text into the problematic document on 13.0.4, it remains the same size, and it's still reported 23pt.

Let me take it slow here:

I end up with two very different size text layers in the same document. But they're still both reported as 23pt.

Again: in the same document. Two different size text. Both 23pt. I tried scaling the bigger one up a bit, with scale transform, to around 38pt. It displays as 38pt, but the text settings? They still show it as 23pt!

It's as if every text layer has its own invisible local DPI setting!

I opened this same PSD in Photoshop 13.0.1.1 on Windows, the two text fields are reported as different sizes: 37.72pt for the big one, 12pt for the small one (notice NEITHER of them is reported as 23pt on 13.0.1.1).

I open the just re-saved PSD back in Photoshop 13.0.4 on Mac, boom, they're back to 23pt, both of them.

It's. Complete. Nonsense.

I know you introduced Retina support with the 13.0.2+ versions and this hasn't happened on Windows, so that may be a possible source of the bug, but god knows.

Let me know where I can supply a test file for you.

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Inspiring
January 27, 2013
The file in question was created in CS5 Mac, by someone else so I don't have further details (I could dig them up if they're relevant). The fact its origin is CS5 might be a wrong clue, so I'd suggest you inspect it as some issue which CS6 has on its own first.

The file I've uploaded is a simplified file I made in CS6, and I dragged one of the problematic text fields into a new empty document.

Once a text field has this problem it remains "infected" with it even when dragged to another document.

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Here's an important detail:

*While* I'm editing the text field, select text inside etc. text size is reported 23pt, but *once* I hit "Commit" (or numpad Enter) to commit the change, I see the textbox changes to the *actual* pt size of the text field.

Then I click with the text tool to edit again, it's 23pt again.

This will help you.

Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qnw35erfq0...

Good luck!
Legend
January 25, 2013
Sorry. The main text guy on team that helps with text topics is out on vacation.

Could you post your affected sample files on Dropbox so I can pass off to the team?

Just to confirm, the file in question was created in CS5? (Mac or Win?)
Inspiring
January 25, 2013
Wow, you guys have abandoned this feedback site, haven't you?
Inspiring
January 22, 2013
Where I said "over twice bigger" I meant "almost twice bigger" ( 12 * 1.91666... = 23) pardon.