letters which descend below baseline are cut off

[Wendywhile]

Hi,



I have font set at size 40pt and line spacing at exactly 40pt. The font takes up the bottom two thirds of a lined template (set as a watermark) and letters which descend below the baseline, such as g j p, take up the top third of the line below. The text of the line above would technically not interfere with the text below, however they are being cut off.

Solutions suggest adding space after the text, however I cannot do this as line spacing must be consistently 40pt in order to sit on a lines of the template. Space before and after text is set to 0.

This same setup in Adobe Illustrator works well.

Is there a way to overcome this?