Font Distortion in PSE4

Recently I have noticed that when I add text to my images using PSE4, the fonts are elongated height-wise and distorted. For example, the image below show the difference between the Arial font using PSE4 and Word 2007. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and resetting various things to no avail. I welcome any suggestions on how to resolve this issue.
Thank you

Are you absolutely positive it's the same exact font? It looks like the first font is Arial Narrow being used in the top example and Arial Regular being used in the second example.
The only other thing I can think of would be if you have "Asian Text Options" enabled in preferences and have a percentage for text to be "compressed" set in the Asian Text Options box.
I just checked my PSE3 and this setting does not seem to reset when the text tool is reset.
If enabled, there will be a fancy T in the options bar when you click on a document with the text tool located between the vertical/horizontal text icons and the cancel/commit symbols. Click the funny looking T and uncheck change the setting to 0%...uncheck any boxes if checked.
Here's a help page on the subject...not your version but the info on Asian Text Options should be the same.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WS45FA68F0-67E2-4524-9462-F39D 23DD4197_WIN.html
Note: The above doesn't mention this but you need to have the text tool clicked...active...in the document to see this the Asian Text Option icon just as you would the cancel/commit button. (At least, this is true of version PSE3.)

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Name : nvidia
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Description : NVIDIA drivers for linux
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URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
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Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
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### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
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fi
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set default="0"
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menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
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save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
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fi
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if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
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---edit---
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GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
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I've been searching online, experimenting on my own, and I can't figure out how to do this chevron shape. Granted, I'm fairly inexperienced with Illustrator, but is what I'm trying to do possible? Any tips?
While I'm here, I might as well also ask about a second type of distortion that's in the design that I'll need to recreate in Illustrator. It seems to be another WordArt perspective thing... basically the word is taller on one end and shorter on the other end, AND the shorter end is slanted up so that it's even higher than the top of the tall letter. Is there a way to do this on Illustrator?

Sure, it works. Make the mesh with one row and two columns, then with the Direct Selection Tool drag a marquee around the two anchor points at one end. Select the Shear Tool, click at the bottom center of the text, then shift-drag the selected end straight down. Drag a horizontal guide from the top ruler (View>Show Rulers) to the bottom anchor point, then repeat the process at the other end, shift-dragging that end until the bottom anchor point meets the guide. Direct select anchor points and adjust the handles. If you put a vertical guide through each handle and make sure it stays on that line, your letters will stay straight.
If you don't want the middle letter to bend in the center, click on the Mesh Tool in the Tool Panel, and with it click once on each side of that letter on either the top or bottom line of the existing mesh. Then select the end anchors, then click with the Shear Tool on the point where the new mesh line meets the bottom line. Repeat on the other side, then adjust the handles. You may need to use the Convert Anchor Point tool (Shift-C) to make the handles at each anchor point independent. It's pretty quick once you try it a time or two, and it's fun to experiment.
I've partially adjusted these so that (I hope) you can see what's going on.
Peter
In the upper example I accidentally added an extra mesh line. Please ignore it.
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Font Outlines For Distorted Type?

before sending my file to the printer, i would like to outline the document's text to avoid font substitution if the printer doesn't have the font available.
to outline all of my text, i first Select > All on Active Artboard and then choose Type > Create Outlines. however, there are many areas of text in my document that contain an arc envelope distortion. these arced text fields were not outlined and i can still reach their editable text field by going down a few layers.
should i also outline the arced type for these fonts incase the printer doesn't have the font available, or was creating an arc distortion the same thing as outlining the text?
the reason i'm asking is because it will take me a very long time to individually process each one of these arced text fields if they, too, should be outlined.

I haven't tried to replicate your issue on my computer but if what your saying is true you should have probably converted to outlines "before" applying the envelope distortion. I am not sure if you can save the distortion settings as a preset but if you can then it would be a matter of saving the presets for each arc instance, removing the current instance, outlining the text, and then reapplying it. I know it will take some time but when sending something to the printer you definitely don't want to take chances.
The other option is setting up your preflight options in Acrobat properly so that when you save the Illustrator PDF you will embed all of the fonts and you don't have to worry about outlining the fonts.

Font looks sort of 'distorted'

Lately on some places like Photobucket's Upload Button, Livestream's chat box, and flash games, the font seems to look kinda distorted, having it be terribly pixelated with blue inside, here's an example:
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/Celenama/problem.png
Edit- I tested to see if this was only on firefox by playing the same game on Internet Explorer and the font's normal there.

Could be something similar as in this thread: [/questions/770138]
* "Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
* "Remove the Cookies" from sites that cause problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

Help! Titles wildly distorted after font change!

I generated titles in LiveType, imported to FCP sequence, ouput on DVD with DVDSP. The font I used was Geneva. Unfortunately, I left it at 100% white, which wasn't smart. Result was that they flickered slightly.
So, I went back to LiveType and re-did them. I did two changes: I changed the font to Impact, and I made it to 85.5% white. Impact is thicker, so there are no "thin" parts which can flicker, but Impact also makes the title more "compact" occupying less space than Geneva... so I made the titles slightly bigger (f.ex. certain titles I change from 30 in Geneva to 40 in Impact.
Anyhow, I changed nothing else other than font and size and whiteness level. Well, here's the problem: when I watch the burned DVD, the titles now are really distorted! It is as if I were seeing them reflected in a fishbowl - the end words toward the left and right edge of the screen are squished and leaning inward. Here's the thing: I did not go outside of the "margin" in LiveType and furthermore, the titles are NOT distorted at all in Geneva (nor are the titles distorted on the computer monitor, only on TV). What gives? How to correct this? They don't flicker any more, but are now funhouse mirror distorted.

How did you insert these titles into your FCP
project? Are they exported .mov's, LT project files,
etc...?
I generated .mov files from the .ipr in LT, then went into FCP and imported .mov files from LT, and put the .mov files on the timeline.
I used exactly the same workflow to generate the UNDISTORTED titles - only difference this time was changing the font to Impact and 85.5% white (from 100%). Again, the workflow was the same - .ipr -> .mov -> FCP and the result was fine with Geneva 100% white, but distorted with Impact 85.5% white.
If you used the LT file then maybe there is some sort
of corruption either in the project file itself or
with the preferences of either program.
How do the titl;es look when viewed in fcp?
Titles look fine in FCP - with both the old Geneva 100% white and the new Impact 85.5% white. Problem is how the Impact fonts look on DVD on TV. On DVD on a computer LCD screen they look fine. The Geneva look fine on DVD on TV. The Impact look fine on computer LCD screen but distorted in the TV.
How do they look if you export your FCP project as a
QT movie?
There are many places where this could be fubar'ed so
the first we have to figure where the problem is
happening.

[SOLVED] Distorted fonts in oxygen-gtk theme

I have install oxygen-gtk2 theme along with gtk-kde4.
When my desktop effects are ON I am seeing distorted fonts in drop down menu's of gtk applications.
They become normal when I move mouse on them. Also they appear normal when desktop effects are OFF.
No other theme have any issue.
Can anyone help me in solving this ?
Versons:
oxygen-gtk2 : 1.2.5-1
gtk-kde4 : 0.9.5b-2
Screen Shots:
Last edited by girish_patel (2012-07-13 17:25:46)

I have "Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD".
I don't have flash video player running. This issue is consistent even without running anything else.
And It is not visible in kde application or with other gtk themes.
It comes only with oxygen-gtk, with kde desktop effects activated, only in gtk applications, only for text in pop-up menus.
Even other texts in those application are normal.
Is anybody else facing same issue in this combination ?

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