Text doesn’t go smaller.

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Lisa_Kyler
Nov 4, 2003
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Now and then I have this issue where my font doesn’t go smaller…if that makes sense. A size 6 font will look like a size 12, though before it was fine. Even on normal fonts, say with Arial. Size 12 looks like it’s 24. The only thing that ever seems to fix it is reinstalling, but maybe someone knows what’s happening with it, so I can prevent it. Thanks. This is with Photoshop 7.0.
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Don_McCahill
Nov 5, 2003
Check that the image resolution is at least 72 ppi. Lower numbers can mess up fonts. It usually happens when you accidentally enter a lower number in the resolution field when starting an image, and this number stays there until fixed (like a reinstall will).
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graffiti
Nov 5, 2003
Yup. Forgot to add the 2 to the end of my 72 once. Took me a while to figure that one out.
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Lisa_Kyler
Nov 5, 2003
Well, this happened mid way through working on the image. I checked anyways to make sure the ppi was set right, and it’s at the default 200. Any other ideas?
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Don_McCahill
Nov 5, 2003
Are you looking at the image at 100% enlargement? You might have hit a shortcut to a resize by mistakes.
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Lisa_Kyler
Nov 5, 2003
Yep. And even when I make a new image, it’s still the same.
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Don_McCahill
Nov 5, 2003
Okay, you have just about eliminated everything I can think of. My last gasp is that the horizontal and vertical scale have been changed (in the character palette) but I don’t know how this could happen accidently.
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LenHewitt
Nov 5, 2003
Delete your prefs file, Lisa – Details in the FAQ at the top of this forum’s topic list
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Lisa_Kyler
Nov 6, 2003
Tried. That didn’t work either, I even uninstalled it and reinstalled it this time, didn’t fix the issue.

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