rengaraja

I've been using Photoshop 7 for several months. Suddenly the Type Tool is behaving abnormally. When I choose Type Tool to write a text, the size of the font is too large and even though I try to resize to 8pt it doesn't work! I don't remember changing any settings.

Pls tell me what could be wrong.

theKeeper

Make sure the type is selected first. Either that or just click on the Type layer first, THEN change the font size.

Maybe that's what it is...? \:]

Welles

rengaraja,

Does this happen with all your fonts? For example, would it happen with an Adobe type 1 font. It seems to me that I ran into an issue with PS 7 that some older fonts, usually TrueType, if I remember correctly, wouldn't seem to size correctly but always seem oversized.

Here's a suggestion for you to try. Create a new image. Use the type tool and add a couple of characters. With the type tool active, select (highlight) the letters you just typed. Now find the Character palette which may be docked in the palette well or will be available from the menu bar Window > Character (at the bottom of the menu). In the Character palette, highlight the font size box. Now use the up and down arrow keys to change the size of the font. Does that work? Here's a screen shot of what I mean. (Click on the smaller image in this post to see the full size.)

rengaraja

Welles

Thanks for your tip. But, it's not that I'm not able to resize the font, the problem is that when I choose a font size, it doesn't match to the size of other softwares like Word, OpenOffice etc. For example a 8pt font in photoshop looks like a 14pt font in Word. Pls remember that I'm able to resize the font, but the size is not of standard one.

Why this happens? Earlier it was working fine.

Welles

OK, well cancel my last useless guess. Here's a new one.

When you select font sizes Photoshop refers to a selection you made in Preferences > Units and Rulers. If the resolution of your image is 72 ppi, points and pixels are equal. If your resolution is higher one point is equal proportionally more pixels. So, you can select points in preferences if you want the type to scale text according to image resolution but use pixels when you want the type to map the text to an exact number of pixels. You can also use millimeters instead of points.

Then there is the issue that type is supposed to be measured from the top of the ascenders (b, h, d, etc.) to the bottom of the descenders (g, p, q, etc.) However type designers don't necessarily follow those conventions so even commonly used fonts will vary greatly. The only solution is experimentation. I've long ago stopped thinking that point size means anything more than a relative number in Photoshop.

Does that help? \:]