Stop text background from changing in height

It is still annoying. I have to create captions in AE using Expressions.

Further to my previous comment – it actually seems that ChatGPT can edit the font for you if you upload the font file to a chat and give it very clear instructions – e.g. it helps to tell it why you are doing this so it understands the assignment, and make sure you explicitly tell it to add a 1x1 pixel square to the top and bottom of each lower-case vowel, centered horizontally, and specify which letters to use as a reference for the ascender/descender heights (e.g. 'l' and 'g', depending on which letters have the longest ascenders/descenders in your font). Good luck

Here's a workaround that is annoying but only has to be done once per font, so if you do a lot of captioning, it is worth it.

1. Download FontForge (a free font editor) and open your font in it.

2. Edit the lower case vowels (a, e, i, o, u) by adding a 1x1 pixel rectangle to the top and bottom of them. Use letters that already have ascenders/descenders to determine how high/low you should place them.

3. Generate the font and use this as your new captioning font.

It's a hassle but on the plus side, you don't have to do the whole alphabet (since every line will have vowels in it), and it only has to be done once.

Side note: please get your mess together Adobe and fix this BS 🙄

This should be such an easy fix for the Adobe Premiere developers. We need this bug fixed! In Essential Graphics  > Background  > needs to be ADDED a radio button "calculate from Baseline / from Descender". 

My personal workaround is inserting a j where there would be a space , and make it the same color as the background.

Doing this in every sentence without "long" letters makes  every box the same height.

As a workaround

Duplicate text and add the specific letter to bottom text.

For top text, use just the fill

for bottom text, just use the background

(might need to adjust the position of the background a little)

Surely annoying, still searching for a workaround

I don't see a way. I thought there might be by changing the size of the box. But no. Making the box a little larger makes it less noticeable, but still a problem.

Workaround: use a font that does not have descenders. But when I looked recently, there were not many.

Stan