Strange Text Tool behavoir

It seems I have lost the ability to create a text box and drop a block of lipsum into it.

I've reset the tool preset, but no improvement.

Here's the issue, With the text tool I draw a text area square in the document and paste in about 500 words of lipsum.

What shows is only about 12 words or so, and copying this line and hitting New Line and pasting again does nothing.

What can I do?

I think the problem is quite simple to answer.. you mentioned that you draw a text area thus constraining the flow of text.

If you are going to copy paste 500 words into a photoshop page.. I suggest when you click on tool box... just click on the blank page.. and not creating a text area square.. Clicking on the an area tells the program that you want a free flow of the text.. and you don't constraint the limit of where the text should be.. got me?

Bryan Agoncillo
Kitakits.com

"kitakits.com" wrote in message

I think the problem is quite simple to answer.. you mentioned that you draw a text area thus constraining the flow of text.

If you are going to copy paste 500 words into a photoshop page.. I suggest when you click on tool box... just click on the blank page.. and not creating a text area square.. Clicking on the an area tells the program that you want a free flow of the text.. and you don't constraint the limit of where the text should be.. got me?
Bryan Agoncillo
Kitakits.com

Yeah, I "have" you, unfortunately this doesn't address the problem.

Here's the problem.... only about a dozen words paste in the text area.... 12 not 500.... not 500 in a straight line (like your method should do)... not 500 in a nice tidy textarea box (like should be happening by using the text area tool).

let me put it this way:

Me: Hey Photoshop, I want 500 hundred words of Latin constrained in this box.
PS: You get 12.

Me: C'mon, where'd you hide them?
PS: I didn't, they're not there, you get twelve, and don't think that resetting the tool presets is going to make me change my mind.

Me: %#!$^^%&*#
PS:

*** Runnin' on Empty escribió/wrote (Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:12:03 -0800):

I've reset the tool preset, but no improvement.

Here's the issue, With the text tool I draw a text area square in the document and paste in about 500 words of lipsum.

What shows is only about 12 words or so, and copying this line and hitting New Line and pasting again does nothing.

Resetting the text tool does not reset the text format. Have you tried the "Reset character" option in the character/paragraph palette? Perhaps you have a 500pt line height and that's why only the first line fits...

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RoE,

Are you using Point Type or Paragraph Type?

To convert between point type and paragraph type
You can convert point type to paragraph type to adjust the flow of characters within a bounding box. Alternatively, you can convert paragraph type to point type to make each text line flow independently from the others. When you convert from paragraph type to point type, a carriage return is added at the end of each line of type (with the exception of the last line).
Select the type layer in the Layers palette.
Choose Layer > Type > Convert To Point Text, or Layer > Type > Convert To Paragraph Text.
Note: When you convert paragraph type to point type, all characters that overflow the bounding box are deleted. To avoid losing text, adjust the bounding box so that all type is visible prior to conversion. HTH
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