When you are displaying at 100% zoom, you are displaying one pixel of the image per pixel of the display, regardless of what size the image is supposed to be. Fonts, on the other hand, are typically set to a particular point size, based on 72 (or 72 and a fraction) points per inch, so a 6 point font will be about 1/12 inch high. The number of pixels occupied by this font depend on the resolution of your image, in pixels per inch. For example, if your image resolution is 72 pixels per inch, a 6 point font will be about 6 pixels high, but if it’s 300 pixels per inch, a 6 point font will be about 25 pixels high. If you want to see how "big" your fonts will appear, view them at print resolution, where 1" on the screen represents 1" on paper. Screen resolution is typically somewhere in the 75-100 range, so your 300 ppi image will be zoomed to show about 25-30% of the pixels, while a 72 ppi image will be zoomed close to 100%, and the fonts will be the same size on screen in either. At 100% zoom, however, the 6 point font will look huge on the 300 ppi image, compared to the same font on the 72 ppi image.
Great suggestions! They all pointed me to look at different things and what I found is that when makig a new file or importing one, i had the Preset Size set to "Letter". The resolution was key to this problem. When i went to a monitor based preset, it went back to normal. THNX YA’LL!!!!!
