All tools in Photoshop CS5 not moving smoothly (only making dots instead of lines)

All my tools in Photoshop CS5, including the brush, eraser, healing brush, etc. are only making dots, instead of drawing smooth lines. When using the brush tool, for example, if I click down and drag my mouse to draw something, only the initial dot for where I clicked down gets colored in. Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

Does anything jump out to you that could be causing this problem? Also, my lasso tool doesn't work properly as I can't drag anywhere. The move tool also doesn't work properly. I can click down and drag a layer, but after I release my click, the layer moves back to its previous position. The only way to move any layers is by free-transforming them.

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hey guys
i have problem in photoshop CS5
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so how can i solved this problem because my all work on the photoshop it's texts please help me and thank you so much adobe

Select the Text Tool
Then right click on its' icon in the Option bar.
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Any questions, get back to me.
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…I installed Font Book to my computer a year ago and I guess some of the fonts were not compatible with the program.
There's some confusion on your part. Apple's Font Book is just a standard, integral part of the OS, and it gets installed with every installation of the OS.
There's a different application called FontBook (no space) by Lemke software that would not interfere with anything.
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Thank you both.
My account (Your Adobe Product and Online Service Registrations) shows the purchase of Photoshhop 12 (which I assume is CS5). However, the other section which shows purchases is missing this one and several others, whioch were supposedly corrected the last time I went thru this.
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Looks like you are talking about HiDPi monitors. If so, then you can try to adjust your screen resolution and check if that helps.
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An error screenshot would help along with OS details.
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Text tool in photoshop CS5 will not work. I get a message that something prevented the text engine from initializing.

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You are seeing this Apple caused bug:
Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file? at startup / Tools act strangely.
There is a link to an unofficial Adobe fix.
Any word from Cupertino when this might get addressed?
edit:
10.6.7 is in sixth beta. I HOPE it addresses the bug affecting Photoshop:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/22/apples_sixth_build_of_mac_os_x_10_6_7_beta_c ontains_no_known_issues.html
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When using Photoshop CS5, if I try to use the font, Lucida Grande Regular, it causes an error.
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When I try to open an existing file that has type layers that include the font Lucida Grande Regular, Photoshop will not open the file. I have several of these files that I want to use. I can open them on another Macintosh and everything works fine.
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What can I do to get Photoshop CS5 to work with Lucida Grande Regular?

Wow, I'm so glad I found this thread. This problem has been dogging me for years, and it's so sporadic that I've been afraid of breathing the wrong way lest I somehow incur that diabolical Program Error dialog. I'd managed to reach a truce with Photoshop CS5, getting it into a barely working state, and avoiding all updates... until Lion came along today. Then I updated to CS5 12.0.4, and the Program Errors were back again.
Now I see that the problem does seem to be related to the Lucida Grande font. If there's a layer with that font in it, not only can I not edit that text, but I can't marquee select anything, nor drag any shapes. Deleting caches and massaging fonts are completely ineffectual measures... but if I delete the Lucida layers entirely, we're back in business.
At least so far.
Funny to think that of all the innovations I'd like to see Photoshop adopt, the fixing of this one issue is the thing I'd like to see most. I'll be keeping my eye on this thread, and any updates by Mr. Cox.

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Several months ago, I noticed that, when using the Photoshop CS5 eraser tool in block mode, it was not working right up to the edges of the tool (the block icon that apperars on screen). In other words, when erasing, I have to guess how near it is safe to move it towards something I need to protect, and this uncertainty can cause errors in my work. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there anything that can be done to cure it?
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True To Form

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Your phrasing
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This is the boilerplate text often used in connection to saving to a network (please NOTE the part where it explains that normally, it does work, but that it is impossible to troubleshoot someone else's network remotely, and that's why it's not supported by Adobe):
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406793.html
Copy the CLOSED file from your server to your local hard disk, work on it, save it again to your local hard disk, close it, and copy the closed file back to the server.
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