Text pasted from Photoshop resizes by interesting ratio
When live text copied from Photoshop is pasted into Illustrator (or the other way 'round), it resizes.
The amount of change is predictable (and infuriating):
the PSD's resolution divided by 72 (when pasting into Illustrator) or
72 divided by the PSD's resolution (when pasting into Photoshop)
Process:
Highlight text in Photoshop with the Type tool (example: resolution is 300ppi)
Copy it
Paste into an Illustrator document (neither raster effects resolution nor type unit of measurement matter)
Result: text is very different (300/72 times larger for text from a 300ppi Photoshop doc)
Type copied in AI then pasted into a 300ppi Photoshop doc will be 24% of what it should be (72/300).
Expected: If text spans 5 inches (or 12.7cm) side-to-side in one app, it should do so in another. Its physical size should not change. For comparison, a shape (rectangle, ellipse, etc) copied in AI and pasted into PS retains its size.
Steve Laskevitch
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Steve Laskevitch
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Text from AI now pastes at the correct size in PS, but PS text pasted into Illustrator still changes in the way described.