Fonts going nuts on me

[Kathryn M]

Please help. I don't know what's going on with my PSE3 tonight. All the fonts are spreading out with space between the letters in a word. I've tried rebooting the computer and that hasn't fixed the proble. The fonts are working fine in Word. I've looked all over and can't find a setting for the font that I may have accidentally set wrong. Dies anyone know what could be causing this and how I can fix it? Thanks. I hope someone has a clue here.

[Diana]

Do you by any chance have "Show Asian Text Options" turned on in Edit > Preferences > Type?

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From the HELP file:
To reduce spacing between Asian characters
Tsume reduces the space around a character (but not the character itself) by a specified percentage value. When tsume is added to a character, spacing around both sides of the character is reduced by an equal percentage.
If you’re working with an existing layer, select the type layer in the Layers palette and then select a type tool.
Select the characters you want to adjust.
Click the Show Asian Text Options button in the options bar. If you don’t see the button, make sure that preferences are set to show Asian type options.
Select a percentage for Tsume from the pop-up menu, and press the Enter or Return key. The greater the percentage, the tighter the compression between characters. At 100% (the maximum value), there is no space between the character’s bounding box and its em box.

Diana

[graficalicus]

check the justification - change it to left or right and see if that fixes it (?)

[Kathryn M]

Thank you, but I tried the different justification options right away and that didn't help. In PSE3, I guess I can't change font preferences. Fonts aren't listed in the preferences menu. Please, any more ideas? I use fonts on everything, and it's totally useless to me like this. :(

[Kathryn M]

I've found the Asian spacing setting, and that doesn't help. I have CS2, also - just learning it, and I tried my fonts in that program, also. They're also spreading out like t h i s. I'm a digital scrapbooking designer and took off work today to get a lot of designing done. This is so crazy.

[Wendy]

Hi Kathrine ...

If this is happening on both Elements and CS2 then it sounds more like an issue with fonts on your computer. Try doing a restart :)

Wendy

[Kathryn M]

That's what I thought, too, Wendy, but it wasn't.

However, I fixed it! In both CS2 and PSE3, I found where you can reset the text tool and that worked! Sure hope it stays fixed, and I still have no idea how it got messed up in the first place. I rarely even open CS2. Crazy.

Doing a happy dance now. :)