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How can I get Farsi/Arabic text to render correctly in Photoshop?
I downloaded a number of Farsi fonts and they render individual characters fine but but don't join multiple characters together at all. Does anyone know how to get whole words to appear correctly? If ...
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How to store and use fonts externally on a Mac?
I'm setting up a new Mac :) I know that my huge font collection will bog down its performance considerably, so I'm looking for a way to store and access them externally - either on an external drive, ...
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Photoshop CS6 displaying incorrect glyphs
So I've downloaded a google font known as 'Didact Gothic' from here:
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Didact+Gothic
It works perfectly when embedded in a website. However, Photoshop CS6 does ...
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Hiding symbol (and other weird) fonts from Photoshop
In my Photoshop fonts menu there's a lot of fonts I'll never use, and these get in the way of finding the fonts I do use. Can I hide those never-use fonts from Photoshop? (I'm not sure font management ...
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Standard Helvetica font
I'm loading a .psd that's missing Helvetica and I'm trying to determine if any one of these fonts matches the original one used (I just installed a Helvetica font family pack).
My choices in ...
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Inline Text in Photoshop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I create a solid line of uniform thickness inside of a letterform in Illustrator?
I have been messing around in Photoshop trying to re-create this effect!
I ...
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What is this font effect called?
The title says it all. What is the effect used in this image and how are there any good tutorials to do it in Photoshop?
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What is wrong with the type tool with Cambria in Photoshop?
When using Cambria (included with Office for Mac 2011) in PS, I get this huge insertion bar (err...).
But seriously, in the left hand example the cursor is positioned after the number 1, and the ...
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Custom folder for fonts in Photoshop
Me and my fellow co-workers are using PS and if one of us uses a font that the rest do not have you get those annoying warnings about not having that font... Is there a better way to share that ...
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Saving a PDF file with Photoshop CS 3 gives error because of the font I use?
I'm trying to save a PDF file and retain text,
The problem is that when I use some hebrew fonts that I purchased I get an error while saving the file,
The error is the famous: "Could not save as ...
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How to Make Letters Like This?
I'd like to know how to make these in photoshop or fireworks, but with a slight preference for fireworks. If I can find a tutorial in photoshop, I can probably get it to work in fireworks.
What is ...
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OTF font family styles not showing up in Photoshop
I have a font which has six styles (Black, Bold, Extra bold, Light, Medium and Regular). For each style there's an OTF file. If I install all the OTF files, the font shows up properly in the Fonts ...
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Photoshop - finding a font
I don't know if any of you had this problem, I'm using photoshop CS3,
And sometimes in order to choose a font quickly, while the text tool is selected, I click on the text field that shows the ...
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Pixels in PSD not accurate for fonts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
I'm trying to figure out why my fonts in a PSD are not telling me the accurate pixel height.
I set up a new ...
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Clearly display small font size
What techniques (or different fonts) could I use to fonts to make small text (about 10px) look nice in Photoshop?
Here is what I tried, but every time it looks blurry, or too bold:
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How can I make my photoshop fonts appear like they do on the web?
Do I really have to design everything in photoshop with anti-aliasing set to "none"??? I'm sure there is a better way.
I'd like to have a setting so that when picking a basic web-safe (such as ...
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Making a logotype “pop” off the page
I really like the look of the Launchrock logo:
It's subtle, but it seems to 'pop' off the background. Being that the background is dark, I can't image that they're achieving this with a simple drop ...
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Why is photoshop not taking in my fonts?
I downloaded this psd file with fonts I did not have. That's fine. I looked at free font sites and found it. Once I downloaded it, it still has that exclamation mark next to the layer. I have the font ...
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How to create a Bitmap Font, with Photoshop?
I want to create a custom font to use for a game, and it must be a Bitmap font. So the spacing etc between characters must be equal. Now I don't know much of Bitmap fonts.
The font itself will be a ...
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PSD fonts and Html Page fonts
I am a web developer. What happens is that the Client sends a PSD (Photoshop designs) to the company. Then the designer needs to create a HTML page from the PSDs
What happen every time is that the ...
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Checking through different fonts quickly
There's a trick I've seen other graphic designers do wehre they'll highlight a block of text, and then seemingly down-arrow through their whole list of fonts, seeing how it looks on that text block, ...
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Strange problem with Photoshop font
I have very strange problem with Photoshop CS4 and CS5 on Windows XP and Windows 7.
I've Installed all necessery fonts for template that I receive from graphic designer.
This fonts was Sansation and ...
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How to fix buggy anti-alias font in Photoshop CS5?
Look this pic:
The font looks wrong, it shouldn't have black background with alpha letters, i had no idea what happened to this font system.
The font is Arial, the size is 80 pixel and the ...
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Photoshop Fonts Always Italic
I've recently exported an image from Microsoft Expression Design to a PSD format, but when I open the exported PSD & attempt to create a new font layer, any font I choose will be italicized but ...
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Photoshop edit text problem [duplicate]
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How can I identify what font was used in a Photoshop layer when the font is not installed on my computer?
I have a psd file and i want to edit a text from a particular ...
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Can't see all the font styles installed in Windows 7
I've installed a font that has different styles (bold, italics, thin, medium, ultra and so on...), but I can't use them all because I can't see them in Photoshop. The fonts are installed, but seem in ...
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Is there a way to sort fonts inside Photoshop, as “serif,” “sans-serif,” “script,” etc.?
In my years as a graphic designer (and now web designer and developer,) I've acquired a great number of fonts; inasmuch as backing them up was a responsibility paramount attendant upon formatting my ...
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Font (anti)aliasing in Photoshop
I'm using Photoshop for designing websites and whenever I compare a photoshop design with the live browser preview the fonts appear to be rendered differently.
Basically any anti-aliasing method I ...
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Is it possible to render readable screen type at a size of 3px?
I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size of the text is 8 pixels which is very big . I want to have a label with text ...
