Photoshop variables - text repositions itself

Question

I am creating some lower thirds for college basketball games; I thought using variables would save some time.  I've positioned all of the assets (names, position, height, etc) in a psd file and set up the variables and data sets.  The data and image successfully changes BUT the text fields don't maintain their positions.  For some reason the text fields are stacked on top of each other, which means I have to make adjustments to each individual file, which ends up taking more time than if I'd just done the lower thirds manually.  I hope this is explained clearly.  Any suggestions?

lockhartgary · Accepted Answer

Are you using multiple type layers for each line of text? Separate each line onto its own type layer. Perhaps you are experiencing an issue with what is known as leading?

Issue resolved!! Thanks to your question about leading, I looked at each line of text again. Turns out that I had some unnecessary carriage returns at the beginning of some of the lines of text that I had to delete. Thanks again!!

Stephen Marsh · Answer

When you preview the data sets, is it different to the final merged results? Can you post screenshots showing the exact issue?

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