Photoshop CC 2017/Mac: type tool very slow

I just wanted to add that the recent 2017.0.1 update DID NOT fix the type tool issues.

Guys, it's a major bug that needs to be fixed. The only solution is to use CC 2015.5.  Earlier I posted that changing the font preview fixed it. I am trying to delete or edit that post because since then, while it did help, it was only about a 50% fix. The system is more usable but still totally lagging. It's a major issue. CC 2015.5 is the only solution.

I have the same issue with type tool. Some font are working normal for example: Adobe Caslon. When I use some other fonts like Futura from TypeKit or Museo Sans and most fonts from TypeKit or default, making the type tool unusable. Like choking the photoshop. Its hard to select some phrases, change formatting and other stuff. After choose some options, every changes take about couple of seconds, sometimes wheel is spinning...

I'm working on Mac Pro Tower 2012. 6 cores 3,33ghz, 48GB RAM, ATI Radeon 5770. SSD drives for system, for scratch disk and other ssd for storage. OS X Yosemite.

Of course before CC 2017 everything was working fine.

I have made such as things as:

1. Disable Font Preview - Nothing change
2. Reset tools - Nothing change
3. Check Book fonts and erase fonts with warnings - Nothing change
4. Reset Photoshop settings - Nothing change
5. Disable GPU - Nothing change
6. Clear cache - nothing change

I thinking about moving to the old version of Photoshop.

Same situation here, working on a recent MBP Pro 16GB. Myriad working fine, all the others are extremely slow.

I have the same problem. Character Tools are so slow in the latest Photoshop 2017 updated they are barely usable.

I'm on a Macbook corei7 with 16gb of ram so it'd not my computer.:/

I just upgraded to 2017 after using 2015 for so long and running great. I decided to spend my limited bandwidth this month and ugprade. I love the new version, but I experienced the same issue with font loading being extremely slow and causing Photoshop to "not respond" in my performance manager.

I had about 3,500 fonts installed on my solid state hard drive which Photoshop is installed on, and never had this issue with CC 2015 Photoshop, however, it takes about 4 seconds to edit a dynamic text layer (one you can scale) with multiple paragraphs.

Well, I just removed about 95% of my fonts and now only have about 150-200 installed on my computer and the type tool works back to normal. It seems like Photoshop is being extremely slow now because I had so many fonts installed. Users experiencing this issue might want to remove some unused fonts from their system and put them on a backup drive until needed. Sad, I know.

Before you ask, yes, I tried all recommended font solutions such as turning off font preview, clearing cache, etc. etc. etc. The new 2017 update definitely has some bugs that need to be worked out. It shouldn't take 4 seconds to type a few words of text on a 1 layer document! How this got past the testing phase is beyond me. I guess I will have to work with 100-200 fonts installed at a time until Adobe fixes their code.

Hi friends,

I believe I have found a way to resolve the issue...though it's not a permanent fix.

Turn off Font Preview in Photoshop preferences

• Choose Type > Font Preview Size.

• Select None.

I found this option at:

Troubleshoot fonts issues in Adobe Photoshop CC, 2015, 2014, CS6, CS5

You'll note, you no longer have font previews, but I can live with that for now, as I know the fonts I use, and you can sort of preview them live on the text layer itself.

I will also dig through my fonts and see if I can find the one that may be corrupt or causing the issue, but I think this explains why some people are having this issue and others are not, and that it happens on both Windows and Mac.

Now, CC 2017 is flying faster than ever!  Hopefully Photoshop will read these posts and resolve this issue...as well as give us a real way to preview these fonts in the workspace with our own sample text.

Hey there.

I have installed Photoshop CC 2017 2 days ago on a clean Windows 7. The entire suite installed great, no error, no issues. Yesterday I was trying to work on a web design ( no big file size ) and tried to add some text paragraphs. I noticed that when trying to change between the fonts I had a big lag, similar with running from an old PC. My PC is ultimate generation. I tried all  the solutions I found on internet and on this forum. Also tried to use the PS on my laptop, that`s even powerful, and runs Win 10 on it. Same issue. Seems that nothing actually helps. I deleted all fonts and added just standard fonts, desabled preview etc. No change. I just realized that using Myriad Pro works fine, but with all other fonts works bad. When changing between fonts or when selecting a paragraph, it`s very annoying. Is there a software bug, or what`s the problem with this version. I used the previsious version of PS, on the same sistem, on the same Windows, and I never had this problem in the past 9 years.

Please Adobe give us a solution otherwise it`s a waste of money.

Thanks!

Alex

Same here. Type Tool is extremely slow.... What the hell Adobe?

Hi Tudor,

Could you please try this step :-

• Right-Click (Windows) or control + click (Macintosh) on the Tool Preset Picker in the Tool options bar and select “Reset Tool” to reset the active tool, or “Reset All Tools” to reset all tools to their factory default settings.

Regards,

Sahil