Text quality in Photoshop

I'm a photographer who only ever really uses Photoshop CS2 and I have no experience with Illustrator whatsoever. I recently designed a quality leaflet with minimal text, added in Photoshop, but when printed in lab the text has a blurry edge like colour bleed. The printer has since advised that it's always advisable to format text in Illustrator and import to Photoshop. Is this true? If I than flatten to Jpeg, as the printer's preferred file format, will the same blurred affect not still occur?
Probably a basic issue here but as you can see I'm really confused. Any advice would be gratefully received. Obviously due to the large costs involved I don't want to rush out and purchase Illustrator to find I'm still presented with the same outcome. Thank you

Rene,
I was just questioning why EPS was 'required' when PDF offers the same features of EPS and a few more.
TIFF and PSD will not include font data so the recipient will need the same font files installed.
Kate,
Printers that exclusively use JPG files fall under the cafepress.com realm for specialty/novelty printing. They can get away with this on mugs and t-shirts. For a leaflet, you'd want a better quality printer. If you are limited to that printer, see if they can support 600 or 1200 ppi in the JPG file. 300 ppi is just too messy for general type. You might get away with a decent print at 300 ppi if the type is over 36 pt or so.
Something seems very odd with this particular printer. Does this printer have a web site address you can share that might explain their capabilities or requirements for artwork?

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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/using-text-tool-freezes-photoshop-cc -2014-2-0-20140926-r-236-x64-release/replies/14873829

Check out this other thread I started
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I'm having issues with text layers in photoshop. Text layers show it's there but not visible on the canvas.

I'm having issues with text layers in photoshop. They aren't visible. I've checked font size, alignment, layer order and color. And the layer list shows that it's there. All seems well but I still can't see the text that I write. Need help trouble shooting. (I asked this question about a month ago but I got sidetracked and never circled back.) Thanks.

Please refer to your original topic (Text Layer not Visible.) instead of posting a new topic.

Cannot paste text into a text layer in Photoshop

Since a couple of days ago I cannot paste text into a photoshop text layer from any other source, like safari, word etc.
I get an "popup error"-window in swedish (my language) saying something like "Could not complete the paste text command because the clipboard data was invalid or missing."
Anyone having the same issue? Or maybe a fix on the problem? Of course i've tried restarting photoshop and also the computer. Running Mac OS X Yosemite and the latest Photoshop CC 2014.

Well I can't paste any text into any DW document, file, blank, page name, nothing
The paste command does not work in DW
I have deleted corrupted cache
I have tried Restore Preferences
Nothing allows me to paste text in any format from any file format period.

Ref: Text Resolution from Photoshop... High or Low Resolution ?

Hi people...
Can anyone tell me... for sure... that text set in Adobe Photoshop will output similar to that of text set in Adobe Illustrator... or will it output as a bitmap file and be pixelated and blurry when enlarged by 400% ?
I have the text setup on Photoshop... but to sync the EPS text with the Photoshop file in Quark is just proving too difficult and dangerous for print output.
Please advise...
Regards,
Anthony

My concern ( and yours ) is the amount of enlargement. If you set your text in Photoshop and it remained 100% for life, there shouldn't be any issues as long as the final halftone screen is fine enough to handle the text detail. For instance, newsprint text at 10pt would not be easily read using an 85 lpi halftone screen ( depending on your file's density ). But, your file is on its way to being enlarged 400%, you have to set the resolution to compensate for that enlargement, otherwise the file ( sans text ) itself will pixelate and could end up around 75ppi ( from 300ppi @ 100% ). Your file should have a resolution of 1200ppi, then if you enlarge it 400%, you'll end up with 300ppi, and with a halftone screen of 150lpi, your text should be razor sharp.

[CS5] Create Export PDF Preset w/ High text quality

Hello,
I've created an Export Preset for PDFs using the PDF/X-1a 2001 Standards. I've left all the default settings, and the PDF looks good, but now its been requested that I make the text appear more "crisp". I'm wondering what settings I could tweak in my Preset to enhance the text quality?
Thanks in advance for any help!

To be honest - I'm not sure about the rasterized/outlined text. We're only viewing it on our computer monitors. What I've done now, which I think will suffice, is created a Preset based on the "Press Quality" preset and saved it with the PDF/x1-a:2001 stanard. This greatly improved the text quality (I haven't dug into the .joboptions file for the built-in Press Quality preset but I'm guessing that's what fixed the issue for me).

Text tool in Photoshop CS5? Help!

Whenever I try to use the "Text" tool in Photoshop CS5 it freezes on my Mac laptop and I have to force quit losing all of my work if I haven't saved. Help please?!

maurerg wrote:
…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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