Photoshop 20.0.0 Crashes in Big Sur with Text tool

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@steveSpeer wrote:

When I choose the text tool in Photoshop 20.0.0 with the Big Sur OS installed it crashes immediately.

Hi Steve,

This issue was fixed for Big Sur in 21.1.1. Please update from 20.0.0.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-211-files-with-fontstype-in-them-keeps-crashing/5f5f462a4b561a3d42776b42

~ Jane

I have a fairly fresh install of Big Sur on a new iMac with a fresh install of Photoshop 2021. I get unexpected crash as well. I have Adobe Creative Suite as well as Microsoft Office on my Mac. Nothing else.

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This is the fix: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-photoshop.html

This issue almost destroyed me so I'm going around to the threads that I encountered while desperate for a solution to hopefully spare someone else this pain.

Big Sur is a nightmare with fonts for some reason. Either the text preview or the font cache in Photoshop (or both?) are the problem. I'm not sure which because I did the following steps at the same time and went from Photoshop crashing every minute to an actual usable application:

1. Disable type preview by going to Type > Font Preview Size and selecting None.
2. Reset the Photoshop Font Cache
3. Delete the System Font Cache

I hope that helps! Good luck everybody!

Also, one important thing I learned after hours of futile troubleshooting and scouring the internet for a solve:

When Photoshop crashes, if you get the dialogue box to send a crash report to Adobe, they're actually useful if you check the second box that says "Allow Adobe to suggest a solution or workaround". I never thought they would actually help because I've never gotten any additional info from sending Apple crash reports, but if there's a known issue, Adobe will actually provide a link to a help document right there - you don't even have to submit your email. That's how I got to the Font Troubleshooting link.

Just a little something I wish I'd known before I wasted hours and hours on this and blew a design presentation >_<

Same here. Anyone figured this out yet?

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Here are the known issues in Big Sur

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-big-sur.html

Any new issues can be reported to the Photoshop developers here:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/

Jane

"Photoshop 20.0.0"

Versions below 22.0 have not been tested for compatibility with macOS Big Sur

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-big-sur.html

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Same here