font issue in Photoshop CS2

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font issue in Photoshop CS2

Hi!

I just encountered a rather annoying problem I don't know how to solve. So far I couldn't find any solution on forums either.

Recently I got the new Intel-based MacBook Pro. Although I had known about the problems beforehand as well as about perfermance issues I now encountered a new problem:
My Photoshop CS2 doesn't render or save fonts properly anymore. They all look wrong.

This problem occured a few days ago and it's only when I create Text layers in Photoshop. When I import Illustrator or PDF files I have no problem but those are pixels or shape objects. The other programmes work fine, no problems with fonts there.

Does anyone know how I can solve this? It's a very big and urgent problem for me as I use Photoshop everyday! Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 20, 2006 3:02 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 20, 2006 6:39 AM in response to engel

My Photoshop CS2 doesn't render or save fonts
properly anymore. They all look wrong.

Could you provide more detail about exactly what is "wrong"?

You might also want to search/ask in the forums which are devoted to those apps:

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/

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engel Author

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Oct 22, 2006 11:08 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

The fonts look pixelated and jagged. Even when I print or save them and open that PSD document on a different computer they look that way. I only experience this problem in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are fine. I work on a MacBook Pro and run Mac OS 10.4.8 on it.

So far I tried to delete the Font Cache as well as Preferences and did a Repair Disk Permissions. No luck.
Not sure whether the driver for my scanner (Canon) that I had downloaded and installed might have cause these problems as this problem appeared afterwards.

I did a search for this problem but couldn't find any other suggestion then to reinstall Photoshop under a new user. Unfortunately I don't really see this as a real solution to the problem.

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engel Author

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Oct 26, 2006 1:22 AM in response to engel

I was able to solve the problem of the fonts looking jagged and pixelated simply by reseting the characters. Only now after opening a Photoshop document I get a message that fonts are missing. After checking the character palette I realized that only the standard font are shown despite the font folder in the photoshop application folder being complete.

I tried to restart as well as log in as a different user (also admin) but no luck.

Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?

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