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mavsi
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January 6, 2017
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Photoshop lag when working with fonts

  • January 6, 2017
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Hi,

in CC 2017 working with fonts is really slow ... as I read in this topic Photoshop CC 2017 ***lagging*** when Text Layers are added or present!  I am not the only one ... are there any updates on solution to this bug that is really annoying ... such a basic function and you are failing on it ... things that are working just fine are after next update complete fail ... it has been more than 2 months since CC 2017 update and still no fix for this one ... cmon!

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    Correct answer Terri Stevens

    I seem to recall this is related to a problem with true type fonts. Other font types seem to be ok but TTFs cause a sluggishness. If you have a font manager try deactivating your true types and see if it makes a difference.

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    Rcls
    Participant
    January 7, 2017

    No font software here. This problem has been reported being a Photoshop related issue, not font managers.

    The only working solution is to install 2015.5 back and work with it. Can't work with 2017.

      postrophe
      postrophe
      Inspiring
      January 7, 2017

      Hi

      If you use a font software manager, make sure it's updated to work with the latest PS version.

      Pierre

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        Rcls
        Participant
        January 6, 2017

        I have the exact same problem. I have a large collection of fonts as I've been a designer for about 10 years now and this is the first time I'm experiencing such dreadful lag working with fonts. This is typically shown when I select a textarea, paste text there then select all (CTRL+A) to change the font, size, color and Photoshop freezes for about 5-10 seconds here.

        Whenever I try to search fonts (type a font name onto the input) it lags so much. It's just horrible. I think I've had this problem for several months now and it doesn't seem to go away.

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        mavsiAuthor
        Participant
        January 7, 2017

        Exactly the same ... small font sizes are not a problem ... when there is a lot of text, things become really slow. Well anyway Terri thank you for your answer ... good to know that it is on the to-do list of bugs to fix

        Terri Stevens
        Terri StevensCorrect answer
        Legend
        January 6, 2017

        I seem to recall this is related to a problem with true type fonts. Other font types seem to be ok but TTFs cause a sluggishness. If you have a font manager try deactivating your true types and see if it makes a difference.

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        mavsiAuthor
        Participant
        January 6, 2017

        But in previous PS this was working just fine ... so I guess it's a bug?

          Terri Stevens
          Terri Stevens
          Legend
          January 6, 2017

          I know it's under investigation as a problem . Hopefully it will get addressed in the next update but unfortunately no guarantee of that.

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