Font in File Info dialog

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Kevin_Ebi
Jan 22, 2009
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How do I change the font used in the PS CS4 "File Info" dialog? The type on my Vista 64 machine is unreadable. All of the menus and everything else are okay; it’s just this one dialog box. It’s hard to keyword images.

The same dialog box on my Windows XP laptop looks fine, and I don’t know why my desktop is using a different (inferior) font.

Thanks!

Kevin
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Irina_Satanovskaya
Jan 28, 2009
Hello Kevin,

We do not support changing font in the dialog.
Could you please send me a screenshot? My email address is

Thanks a lot!
Irina Satanovskaya
Photoshop QE
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Rob_Keijzer
Jan 28, 2009
Or, post it here and keep the topic public, a much appreciated road to solutions on this forum, I’m lead to understand.

Rob
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Irina_Satanovskaya
Jan 28, 2009
Could you please also check whether the following Windows fonts are present on your system:

1)Segoe UI;
2)Tahoma.

Thanks!
Irina Satanovskaya
Photoshop QE
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Kevin_Ebi
Jan 29, 2009
Not sure why my other reply didn’t get posted, so I’ll try again (my apologies if it’s duplicated).

I don’t have a host available to hotlink the screenshot so all can see. I sent the screen capture directly to Irina.

I DO have both Segoe UI (in four different weights) and Tahoma installed.

For anyone else who’s interested, the font in my File Info dialog appears to be a decorative face, somewhat like Hypatia, that’s barely readable at the small size used in the dialog box. Descenders on letters like "g" are cut off. Hyphens are barely visible.

And this appears to be the only dialog box in Photoshop CS4 where this typeface appears.

Thanks,
Kevin
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Wolf_Eilers
Jan 29, 2009
Use Pixentral <http://www.pixentral.com/> to host your screen shot.
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Kevin_Ebi
Jan 29, 2009
Here’s a screenshot:

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=11lr7U0XFQWvUJNwnO xLWlckO9U20>
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Wolf_Eilers
Jan 30, 2009
Try setting your WinXP font smoothing to ClearType.

Start > Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects.
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Samy_Makki
Feb 26, 2009
Hi Kevin,

is this still an issue? Was anyone else able to reproduce this? The screenshot looks realy strange. The (i) icon has no color at all and the tabs at the top are not seperated. I don’t think that this has something to do with the font. Did the font smoothing fix the issue?

Thanks,
Samy
XMP QE Adobe
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Kevin_Ebi
Feb 26, 2009
Hi Samy –

I’m using Vista-64, and the Clear Type (font smoothing) settings don’t appear to make any difference at all.

Thanks for your help.
Kevin

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