My cursor is HUGE!!!

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Ronda_Scrimsher
Sep 27, 2006
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My text tool cursor is wayyyyy too big and I don’t know how to fix it. I would think it was just me, but my friend is having the same problem with their cursor right now too.

I can still use it..but it’s just much harder to use–I have to carefully edit my text…but it’s seriously inconvenient…

HELP!
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Bernie
Sep 27, 2006
What’s the resolution of your file?

What’s the point size and leading on the text?
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Ronda_Scrimsher
Sep 27, 2006
Leading is set on automatic..so should be set for a 14 pt font. 72 dpi.–set for TV graphics…
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BranderChatfield
Sep 27, 2006
Seems some fonts, at least for me, especially the more "calligraphic" ones, generate a larger than life cursor, even tho I purposefully set the text and leading very very tiny…
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Ed_Hannigan
Sep 27, 2006
Should be 72 ppi..but IS it?
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Phosphor
Sep 27, 2006
Is the Baseline setting in the Character Palette set to something besides zero?

If not, change it to zero and see if that helps.

Check on a common font such as Helvetica.
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Doug_Katz
Sep 27, 2006
I suspect this is what many of us have seen with certain older fonts. It isn’t a baseline, typesize, or leading issue. Simply something odd built into the character sets of many of the fonts drawn in the early 1990s. I’ve moved to a lot of OpenType since then and so can’t remember which ones. Wade Sans Light is one I still use that displays a comically long cursor extending well below the character baseline.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Sep 27, 2006
Try resetting your Type tool preferences:
LenHewitt, "When Photoshop or Imageready do not work right, How do I Reset Preferences?" #1, 30 Oct 2005 8:03 am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>

Which font are you using? Some of the old Lettraset fonts generated huge cursors.
DK
Doug_Katz
Sep 27, 2006
Yes. Letraset was one culprit….

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