Photoshop: Text layout engine respacing text on commit

When adjusting a paragraph text box in Photoshop, the layout will show one thing live (while dragging) and then reflow/respace the text once the box handle is released.

I have been editing a couple thousand PSD files with text and images and this reflow is annoying to say the least.

42 point Calibri, 42 point line spacing, Metrics for letterspacing, document at 100%, Win 7 Pro. Latest Photoshop release with Legacy compositing enabled.

David Converse

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Posted 9 months ago

9 months ago

Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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Does this happen with all fonts? Can you post your PSD?

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2019-01-16T19:51:41+00:00

David Converse

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The one in the animated GIF is just a test document created from scratch. I have thousands of PSDs that are doing this.

And yes I have been using Calibri but it happens with Myriad Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, Adobe Garamond Pro, exactly the same.

You can see it with the built-in placeholder text too.

2019-01-16T20:40:10+00:00

Vinod Balakrishnan

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Do you have everyline composer on? You can turn it off from paragraph panel flyout menu.

-Vinod
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2019-01-16T21:05:54+00:00

David Converse

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That's it, everyline vs single line. Interestingly, on some files, everyline is checked but both choices are greyed out while other files, they are active. I am using a script to do most of my editing them hand tweaking to fit, so I am able to set the single line composer in the script.

Thank you for the help, I now know what the difference is in the composers and can see it when adjusting the textitem size.

2019-01-16T21:11:03+00:00

David Converse

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for(var i = 0; i < docRef.artLayers.length; i++){
    var LayerRef = docRef.artLayers[i];
    if(LayerRef.kind == LayerKind.TEXT){
        var TextRef = LayerRef.textItem;
        TextRef.textComposer = TextComposer.ADOBESINGLELINE;
         }
    }

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