bitmapped text in PSCS on XP

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textmonkey
Jul 26, 2004
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I’ve searched the forums and checked the PSCS Help file to no avail.

I’m a designer working on an XP box using PSCS. I normally do most of my type-oriented design in Illustrator or InDesign, but I have a graphic element I need to add type to in PSCS. All of my fonts display bitmapped in PSCS and remain that way when layered files are flattened. This happens to TT and OTF fonts (I have no Type 1 fonts). I’ve checked to for duplicate fonts and nuked the PSCS pref file to no avail. I’ve also restarted my XP machine. The same fonts display, export to PDF, and print correctly in InDesign, so I assume it’s a PSCS-specific issue.

I’m a long-term Mac user forced to design in XP for this job, so if this is a system-related issue please spoonfeed the answer to me. Windows is not my strong point.

Thanks,

J

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BobLevine
Jul 26, 2004
Photoshop works EXACTLY the same on Windows as it does on the Mac. What resolution is the graphic? Do you have anti-alias set? What format are you saving the file as? If you’re placing in InDesign you should be saving as Photoshop PDF with a PDP extension.

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textmonkey
Jul 26, 2004
I knew it would be something obvious. No, anti-aliasing was not enabled. I can’t remember the last time I had to set that manually on an install of Photoshop on a Mac, so I didn’t even think to check for it (but then again, I haven’t used that option in so long I forgot it existed).

Thanks Bob.

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