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No, it’s pretty much going to be there. It’s just a hairline, and I honestly didn’t hear of anyone being bothered by it during beta, so I didn’t consider having to hide it separately from the selection. Sorry.
The position of the dot (or small square) changes as to whether it is left aligned, centered aligned or right aligned. I frankly don’t find it bothersome at all but, again, I am sure there are some things that bother me that don’t bother anyone else.
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Is the only purpose of it is to know where the text starts and ends?
Where the text is, and to provide an indicator that you are in edit mode and have to commit the edit before moving to other operations (though that’s done automatically for you in a lot of cases).
I hate the underline too. Most of the designs I work on are text-heavy and the underline is a major annoyance. I don’t need or want an indicator that I’m in edit mode…I’ve been figuring that out all on my own for several versions without any problems.
Let’s hope 8.01 at least provides the option to turn it off.
I also think it would be a BIG enhancement to be able to hide it. I find it interferes with my ability to properly preview the type – particularly in cases where the text may be very small.
I suppose it’s good and bad. It’s brilliant if you are typing same colour text on same B/G coz then you can see it but if "HIDE" were available, well, the streets would but full of happy, ranting, raving lunitics who it would delight, so sorry Scott, Hide it is.
I like the idea of an option for the same reason mark just gave. ex. Black text on black or near black background. But the ability to turn it off would be great. how about with a keyboard toggle? (ie. tap-tap crtl or something.)
I’m also finding that the text is almost un-editable unless I’m at 100%. At lower magnifications I’m getting all sorts of corrupted text, backspace deletes that don’t delete, spacebar spaces that don’t show up… it’s generally a real mess and looks like an Adobe first attempt at integrating a text feature into Photoshop rather than what I would expect should an improvement. This REALLY stinks!
I’m running a P4, Asus P4T-E mobo with a Matrox G550 – 1GIG RAM and text has worked flawlessly in v 6 and v7 (and before that!).
Try resetting the text tool. I’m not sure what else could be going on beyond a potential hardware issue. Text is all drawn in the background (could be very expensive to draw), so a very busy/fragmented/slow hard drive being used for scratch could affect how text seems to be drawn.
What magnifications are you talking about? Maybe I can try and see if I can repro.
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