Link problem with photoshop (and illustrator)

[Lisa34704318uwr2]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year !

(In first, sorry if my english is not good)

I have a small problem that concerns both Photoshop and Illustrator, let me explain:
I work in a company where I have many banners to make. Between 20 and 40 per promotion. I created new templates in order to "industrialize" the production of these banners and to have more time on more important projects.

For how my templates work: my texts are made on Illustrator with a link on Photoshop so that they are all changed at the same time on each work surface. > Huge time saving.

Except that I still end up wasting a lot of time because as you see in the images, depending on the size of the text, it will automatically center in Photoshop and I have to have fun afterward putting them all back together one by one.

My question is therefore: is there a system that allows me to systematically block or position this text coming from Illustrator on a specific point in my Photoshop file so as not to go over it each time?

Thanks in advance !

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

Untested, however if you made the text on a larger blue background matching the Photoshop colour values then the updated text would have the same bounding area and wouldn't shift when updated.

With Illustrator, perhaps a single stray point from the pen tool in the upper left and lower right would be enough. The stray point may not even require a fill or stroke, it could be enough to set a consistent bounding box.

Another trick is to put a very small item in the upper left and lower right of the transparent canvas, the opacity would be 1% so that it's practically invisible but again creates a fixed consistent bounding box that's larger than the largest text.

Otherwise an action or script could realign the layer on each artboard after it has shifted.

[Lisa34704318uwr2]

Hello Stephen and thank you for your response!

The first option of adding a background to the illustrator text is unfortunately not possible for me because the background can sometimes change color (especially with gradients which is complex to manage in these conditions)

Your second option on the other hand of the parasitic point is really a good idea! I tested it and in fact it is absolutely not visible and the text block remains static. Thank you so much !!!

I will use this option. If there are still other ideas I'm open to it, it's very interesting 🙂

[Stephen Marsh]

@Lisa34704318uwr2 

I did find it strange to recommend adding stray points, usually one wants to remove them, not add them! Looks like decades of cleaning other people's messy files provided a working solution!

[Lumigraphics]

I use an action to set type layers exactly. Start with paragraph type, convert to point then back, align to canvas, then transform a specific number of pixels. The conversion will reset the bounding box to fit the type. You can specify a manual box size with a script.

I actually have a script that pulls metadata from files, puts it all into a text layer, then granularly formats the text (I use different text sizes and some is bold), aligns it on the canvas, saves to PSD then exports with Save for Web. HUGE timesaver when I had to overlay text on 90,000+ JPEG files.