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Hey guys, not sure if anyone else has experienced this problem, but today I turned on my machine and starting layout out some type and noticed that it looked alot chunkier than before. I had my anti-aliasing set to Mac LCD, which is usually spot on, but this particular text field looked terrible. I opened an old document and sure enough, I was right, the same type of anti-aliasing looked vastly different, even when both of the typfaces were exactly the same. I've had others open the file on their machines and have gotten the same problem. Now every time I create a new text field, I get chunky, terrible looking anti-aliasing, no matter what font I'm using. The only way I can get good looking type is by copying and pasting from old files. I've included an example file of what I mean. On the left is Trade Gothic, and on the right is Trajan (just to show it's not any particular font). The top versions of the fonts look beautiful clean, and anti-aliased properly. The bottom versions look chunky and blurry. Any help would be much appreciated!
Download the file here: http://cl.ly/3I2L2f163q3z

Same problem here.
This fixed it for me. Though, only temporarily:
1. Select all layers of your PSD file.
2. Select the type drop down > Anti-Aliasing > None
3. Save your file
4. Quit Photoshop
5. Re-open the file
6. Select all layers of your PSD again
7. Select the type drop down > Mac LCD (or desired aliasing)
8. Save the file
9. Continue working
This worked the last few times I tried but it is not a permanent solution.
I feel your pain

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