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Photoshop showing two different sizes for same font size

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February 20, 2013
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Hi folks,

I've been using Photoshop for a long time, but this problem has popped very rarely along the way and some how remedied itself - I'd like to know this time what's causing it, and how to solve it.

I'm in a Photoshop document, and I'm working with two different text areas. Both area registering as 14px in size in the Type menu, and yet, they're radically different in size. One is tiny, whilst the other is at least twice, maybe thrice the size. Why is this happening?

I've checked there's no overlapping text areas and things like that, everything should be fairly normal, it just isn't.

I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS6 v13.1.2 x64 for Mac, running on a Macbook Pro Retina 1.83ghz and 8GB ram

Thanks in advance

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Hi Miker,

I can confirm that the bug has been fixed in Photoshop CC (CS6 still has it). In your case just don't forget to check the DPI in the "Image Size" dialog, that might be the reason.

Yes! The problem is the DPI!

One document had 72 DPI, and the other had 22DPI.

This is why the font sizes were so different, even though their appearances the same.

Thank you very much for the help!

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sherizan

Participant

I had this problem as well while designing mobile.

Then I found the reason and its a simple solution.

Go to Image > Image Size > Resolution

The Resolution for standard web element is : 72 pixels/inch

I had it on 400 px hence the font sizing problems!

Glad its FIXED!

Also to keep the Width and Height same as what you had while changing back to 72 px/inch or else the canvas changes.

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ThomasEngebrand

Participant

Changed Rulers and Type in Preferences>Units&Rulers to display pixels instead of points and that worked for me.

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JasonCarr

Participating Frequently

Yeah. This has been plaguing me as well. Working in tiny type incremets isn't exactly efficient for wrokflow. Seems like this fix is on the "ignore" list for the time being. Bummer.

thenewbeatTO

Participating Frequently

Honestly, I was on 'Live Chat' support yesterday for an hour, and then waited on hold for an hour and a half until I just hung up because I assumed noone was going to pick up. What's going on Adobe? Transition to your new 'monthly payment system' and now all of a sudden you don't care about your customers...

Noel Carboni

Legend

Seems to me this bug's been fixed - or at least some parts of it have.

Can you describe exactly how to reproduce it? I just tried using a Transform in Photoshop CC 14.2 and had no problems with disparate sizes.

-Noel

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rsalazarud

Participant

Is this literally not fixed for Photoshop CC yet? C'mooon.

TDRonline

Known Participant

Yeah and I doubt it will from what I read a long time back.

There is a trick to it, but now and then if you resize the font with the resize tool that is what causes a lot of issues, then again it can randomly happen as well. I thought for sure I would see it fixed in CC.

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rsalazarud

Participant

You doubt it will? What'd you read?

This is literally a horrible bug that team Photoshop needs to address.

BEGIN THE CRUSADE

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lin_0v0

Participant

I'm having the same problem. Both texts look the same, but Photoshop says different font sizes. If I change the font sizes that they have the same size in the photoshop dialogue they look different... I think it came from transformation of one of these text-fields. But it's still wrong - same looking text, complete different sizes...

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, all! If you are using the Perpetual (non-subscription) version of Photoshop, make sure that you run the updater: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/06/photoshop-cs6-13-0-5mac-13-0-1-2win-perpetual-license-updates-now-available.html

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Billy Moon

Participant

I am having same problem, July 30th, PS6-13.1.2.

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Lynx_Paul

Participant

We are having the same font size issue.

It seems to be a CS6 problem, if a PSD was created in an older PS version, thats when you get the two different font sizes.

Selecting the text layer from the Layer pallet should show the true value.

This issue has been going on for over 9 months, still waiting for Adobe to correct this problem :-(

thomasbricker

Inspiring

Is there a way to get Photoshop to correct itself and forget about the Transform change that the type was subjected to.

(Essential clear out the type "memory"?)

This is a big pain in the butt.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

You may have transformed some of the Type Layers at some point and this may have affected the size that’s being displayed as opposed to the »actual« size.