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Text formatting or size incorrect after Production

If you are using the technique to create the desired text automatically set on the images during Hi-Res Production and the text formatting or text size is not correct, then the following will assist with checking and resolving this.

In Photoshop, check your .psd overlay image file for the following:

  1. The text layer formatting is correct
  2. The text layer must include some sample text (ie you must have some "dummy" text in it to hold the font and size information).
  3. All text layers must be in separate stand-alone layers at the top layer levels - they must not be in any layer group

Using Photoshop CS6 and newer (including CC)

With Photoshop CS6, Adobe changed the way text sizing is handled and added a few bugs along the way. This broke a lot of scripts and invoked a lot of complaints. They made some changes in a later update and then reverted these in 13.0.5, then changed it again in 13.0.6!

As such, if your Photoshop file include text that has been scaled (see below), then the scaling "factor" is lost when the text is replaced by ProSelect during Hi-Res production and the text changes size from designed size.

In order to compensate for these changes, we have made changes to ProSelect 2014r1.3 so that production in this area works a little differently when you are using CS6 or newer versions of Photoshop and compensates for these changes.

IMPORTANT: These changes are only tested to work with the latest CS6 update (13.0.6) and may or do not work with earlier updates. So make sure that you have updated your copy of CS6 (Photoshop 13.x) to this version.

Scaled text?

The short of it is that, if your Photoshop file includes text that has been scaled, then that scaling value is stored internally with the text and used to dynamically re-calculate the text size as you change the text point size. When designing your image file, it's easy to accidently scale text without realizing it by using the Transform command on either an individual text layer or the whole image.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to determine if a text layer has been scaled in Photoshop apart from finding that, after running ProSelect's Hi-Res Production, your replaced text is the wrong size.

In this case, you need to update the original photoshop layered file that you are using as the overlay image (it will be in your ProSelect Resources -> Template Overlays folder) as follows:

  1. Open the file in Photoshop
  2. Delete the text layer(s)
  3. Add new replacement text layer(s) setting the text size only using the text size options, not the Transform tools.

General Information

More on "Handling Text in Composite Layouts" can be found in the "Layouts - Tools" section in ProSelect Reference manual (under the Help menu in ProSelect).

 


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