I am having this very weird issue (Win 10 / AE 16.1.2) where I add a type layer to a comp and depending on the font, everything goes smoothly or slows everything down to a crawl, with the AE task using up 100% of a CPU core (the one the UI is running on I presume) and AE becomes pretty much unusable.
I have noticed this for example with Bahnschrift vs. Arial. Arial is fine, Bahnschrift is not.
Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix?
Edit: this is after a fresh install with all preferences removed
I think there's something up with the Bahnschrift font. Unexpected things can happen with any font, but they're more likely to happen with free web fonts.
I just downloaded it and I can't even get it to install. The TrueType files preview as expected, but won't install.
Bahnschrift is supposedly the next default UI font for windows after Segoe UI (it ships with the latest Win 10 service packs too), so I'd assume/hope they would not do something weird there?
As noted earlier, fonts can act weird. I see you compare it just to Arial but have you compared to a couple others to just ensure it's that particular font? Then if so, perhaps delete it and reinstall or find another version of that font?
I suppose the simple answer is choose a different font so not sure how determined you are to use that one.
A fresh install will not overwrite previous Pref Files if you chose to Migrate Settings during the installation process. So, perhaps trashing AE's Prefs may help?
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