Damien Symonds

I would try this method first.

I was sitting in the movie theatre (Smurfs, don't bother, it's naff) and I had an epiphany. It's not the leading, it's probably the font size! Somewhere in that paragraph will be an invisible space with a different font size. To check, hit Cmd A to select all the text in the box. Then look at the size field. If there's a number in the box, I'm wrong. But if there's a blank space, I'm right.

Ah, maybe I'm imagining it.

No, the "Celebrate" paragraph still seems to have different spacing to the others. In that case, I don't think there's enough space! Have you printed out the design on your own home printer to test writing on it?

Got it, thanks. Just to check - did you do the text-to-shape thing? I'm not at my regular computer to check at the moment. The colour is absolutely perfect now. Spot on. However, I have to say that the nerd in me is still troubled by the line spacing. The spacing in the "Celebrate your relationships" paragraph looks different from the others. And I think the space is too great between the first line ("This gift voucher ...") and the rest.

Sorry mate, do you mind sending it again? It's not opening for some reason. Saying "Invalid file" or some such.

Gosh, that's pretty good!

Oh, great! I urge you to run CleanMyMac once a month. It's just good housekeeping, you know?

Thanks, fixed.

Gosh, how annoying! Every other tool is ok? You haven't noticed any other problems? Could you open a photo, choose your Crop Tool, (don't attempt to crop with it) and take a screenshot of your whole screen for me?

Yes, click on those little arrow thingies. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/10/using-photoshops-gradient-layer.html

Then it must be the gradient colours on the gradient overlay.

Ok, it's better, but not quite safe yet. The text on the blue block had better, for safety, contain 10% cyan and 3% magenta, so it blends seamlessly with the blue block. The "GIFT VOUCHER" text still contains all colours. It needs to be made of K only. The text at the top is perfect.

How did you go? Can you send it to me again once you've fixed it?

Correct.

No. The text has C, M and Y in it. It's gotta be ONLY K.

Great! So, make sure you have the PSD safely saved. Then follow these last steps: Select each text layer in turn, and go to Layer>Type>Convert to shape. This will do exactly as it says - convert from editable text to plain vector shape layers. This is to abide by their instructions to make sure all text is outlined. Turn off any guide layers or other guff that came with the template. Save as a PDF file. Close it. Send me the PDF file so I can check it for you.

Yes, if your screen still matches previous prints, it's all on them.

Is it accurate?

In sRGB of course.

I can't tell from here. You'll need to open the photo into Photoshop, and check with a Levels layer.

Yep, this looks all as it should. Ie completely fucked up. https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge

No, just with soft-proofing on and off for now.

Ok, could you show us two screenshots (off and on)?

Have you left enough space to hand-write the date on the "expires" line?