Text stretched

[Palm Equipment]

Photoshop 21.2.12

Problem: text is compressed while the character panel is set to 100% x 100% scaling.

Anyone got a fix for this?

[jane-e]

@Palm Equipment 

Did you resize your text with Cmd+T to get a typesize of 145.72 (with fractions) instead of using the sizing control (found in Character, options, and Properties panels)?

Jesús Ramirez explains the difference and shows the fix in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P01qAn52Y8

I have to add that I'm not seeing the compression.

~ Jane

[Palm Equipment]

Thanks Jane for your reply.

This affects any font choice, and horizontal scaling of 133% is needed to restore the correct proportion of the glyphs (the font shown is not a bad knockoff of Arial condensed).

Jesús' video may be related (new font rendering engine) but there are no character styles in the document, basic paragraph style has not been altered and the transform tool was not used to horizontallyy distort the text.

Any new use of the text tool produces horizontally compressed glyphs.

Regards, Peter

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

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@Palm Equipment wrote:

Any new use of the text tool produces horizontally compressed glyphs.

Regards, Peter

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Peter, the options for tools are sticky, meaning that once you change them they stay that way across time and across documents until you change them or Reset the tool. Try this:

• Right-click the Type tool in the options bar (not Tools panel)
• Choose Reset tool

Does that clear your issue?

If not, try it again before you consider resetting preferences after backing up customization:

• Photoshop menu > Preferences > General > Reset Preferences on Quit (then quit and relaunch)

Jane

[Palm Equipment]

Thanks Jane, your answer has fixed my problem. Stangely I had to 'Reset tool' twice, but now the problem is gone. It was definitely a bug that caused the issue (not a setting in the type panels), now I have the workaround. Regards, Peter

[jane-e]

@Palm Equipment 

You're welcome, Peter, and I'm glad it's working for you again. 😊 I reset my tools quite often to restore their defaults, but seldom reset preferences.

Jane

[Jeff Arola]

In your screenshot it looks like you have All Caps enabled in the Character panel.

Uncheck the All Caps and see if that makes a difference.

[Palm Equipment]

Thanks Jeff for your reply.

This affects any font choice, and horizontal scaling of 133% is needed to restore the correct proportion of the glyphs (the font shown is not a bad knockoff of Arial condensed).

Jesús' video may be related (new font rendering engine) but there are no character styles in the document, basic paragraph style has not been altered and the transform tool was not used to horizontallyy distort the text.

Any new use of the text tool produces horizontally compressed glyphs.

Regards, Peter