Expert: Candice Anderson - 11/3/2006

Question
Hi,
I am having a weird thing happen in PS2 when I go to add text to my document...I am adding the text on a new layer to my image and after typing several characters a huge gap appears between the characters almost like I have hit a tab button or something? Say I am typing the word "imagine", it would look like this "im       gine". This just started happening recently and I don't know why.
Do you have any ideas? It is driving me crazy that I can type a simple word without this weird formatting kicking in. Thanks in advance!

Answer
hey there,

I think its the font.  A lot of free fonts do this, its just something in the font. Check and see if its doing in the exact places on letters.

If not this, or you using something like Arial or Times, check your Kerning.  Open you characters window and see if everything is set at 0. If something isn't, theres your problem.