Text tool in PSP

[DeeZee]

I feel like I'm hogging the board over here LOL!! Am I the only one who can't figure these things out??

When using the text tool and using a font with varying sizes, I'm having trouble with the kerning (is that the right word -- the space between the lines??)

Here's an example of what I mean:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28647&cat=500&page=1

In the journalling, I tried to make some words larger, but it made the spaces between the lines uneven even though I used the same font sizes on each larger word. In my mind, if all the lines contained font of a specific size, shouldn't all the lines be evenly spaced? Adjusting the kerning option didn't help in this case. I also had some wierd looking stuff with the letters themselves but when I flattened, those disappeared (the first letters didn't resize on my original).

Do I need to do each line separately? I really don't like that option since then I have to line them up manually, but if it's the only way .... sigh....

[valeri]

PSP IMO doesn't do text very well for word art.. or maybe there is an easier way that I don't know about. I do my text in vector, and I usually end up doing one line or even word at a time. That way each word or line is individually selectable and then I can move them around like I need to. When it is how I like it, I covert the whole layer to raster and save as PNG. Now I can put it into my layout

[Emma]

Kerning is the space between letters
k e r n

Leading is the space between lines, like Single or Double spacing

So try selecting all the words in the Text Entry box and adjust the Leading space

I like PSP text, I think it's better than PSE by far with more options. However, when resizing for the web, I have to flatten my PSP layouts because often the way the vector text resizes looks weird, or just not quite the same

[DeeZee]

OK, I meant the leading LOL!! I always get those two confused and when I posted this, I didn't have PSP open and was too lazy to go open it again to remind myself which one I needed.

My *leading* (pounding it into my head) isn't coming out even with different sizes of the same font on the line. Emma, is there a way to fix this or should I be doing each line in a different "text box" (again, I'm not sure what it's called but so that each line has a different entry on the vector layer in the layer palette)

[Emma]

I've never had this "crooked" leading. Try use a larger font size and seeing how that helps. Jasc tech support would be a better choice since this sounds like a program hiccup