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Photoshop all fonts are condensed

Community Beginner ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Hello,  I have found old posts about fonts/type looking too condensed.

I am having the problem with the current CC Photoshop.  I have tried many things, and

all the fonts I use still look about 70-80% condensed.

Here is a sample of Photoshop compared to Indesign.

I run a PC.

TYpe_Odd_sample.jpg

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Community Beginner , May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

Thanks again.FF_cache_fix.JPG

.  We tried several new documents all with new text boxes.

My IT man has been working on this all day.

Two things that SEEM to have finally cleared it up, we hope for good.

There is a "font feature cache" file to be deleted.

Somehow "East Asian" features got turned on, or made into a default.

Why on earth there is no  "USA, Roman" Layout feature, and the correct setting is  Middle eastern and South Asian Layout -

is totally WEIRD.

See 2 screenshots:

East_Asian.jpg

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Community Expert ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Helvetica Neue is a large font family. The yellow type looks like it is an Extended face and the Photoshop text looks like it’s a normal one, meaning not condensed or extended.

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Community Beginner ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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If you look carefully,  I am using Hel 83 Extended Heavy in both samples.

This happens to all of my fonts as I stated.

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Community Expert ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I tested the same font on my computer and it matches perfectly. The black text is a screen capture from InDesign placed into Photoshop. The red text is Photoshop text.

2018-05-23_08-41-57.jpg

Next I scaled the text box in Photoshop using transform with the move tool. This squeezed the text similar to yours. The character panel however does not reflect the scaling. I think this is what happened to your Photoshop text.

Screen Shot 2018-05-23 at 8.47.48 AM.png

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Community Beginner ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Thank you all for investigating.  I have a new document, and new text boxes.

None have been scaled, I know how that will change the text.

Posted here is a new screenshot, with 4 fonts. 75 Bold is my favorite and looks condensed.

They all appear condensed,  each is 48 point, with 10 kerning added.

My PC at home does not have the problem, my Mac at another job was fine, and now

my PC at this job has this trouble. 

I just today updated Photoshop CC at lunchtime.  I fear that the install is funky or some kind

of tech problem, but I don't know what to even investigate.

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Community Beginner ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Oh WOWW  ---  I just trashed my preferences, and it appears to be fixed !!!

UGH ---  and I just updated Pshop CC at lunchtime, I would have thought that

doing that would fix any prefs issue.

Embarrassed..... but thanks all of you who responded.

New screenshot -- blue text was old,  red text After trashing prefs.

2fontzz.jpg

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Community Beginner ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Hello again,

That solution only lasted half a day.  Fonts are squeezed again today.

Wondering what kind of corruption could be happening already.   Thx, Bonnie

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Community Expert ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Can you provide a layered file?

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May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Thanks, cannot upload a layered file here. Plus, program on other machines does not have the issue.

Here is a link to a .psd on Google to try:

type_test - Google Drive 

The type seems to be distorted both Vert & Horiz.

Deliberately scaling at 90% V  and  120% H  makes it appear as it should be at 100/100.

90_120fix.JPG

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May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Resetting the Type Tooland pasting the text into a newly created non-empty Type Layer seems to get rid of the distortion.

I suspect you inadvertently transformed a Type Layer sometime.

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May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Thanks again.FF_cache_fix.JPG

.  We tried several new documents all with new text boxes.

My IT man has been working on this all day.

Two things that SEEM to have finally cleared it up, we hope for good.

There is a "font feature cache" file to be deleted.

Somehow "East Asian" features got turned on, or made into a default.

Why on earth there is no  "USA, Roman" Layout feature, and the correct setting is  Middle eastern and South Asian Layout -

is totally WEIRD.

See 2 screenshots:

East_Asian.jpg

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May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Has the Type Layer been transformed?

When you copy the text and paste into a new Type layer is it distorted, too?

Please post s screenshot with the Character Panel and the text actually selected.

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Feb 01, 2023 Feb 01, 2023

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Use the "Reset Paragraph" ommand in the paragraph menu and it should solve the type problem.

 

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