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  1. Some variable fonts get expanded in parts

    If you apply a stroke to a live text using Acumin Variable Concept, Myriad Variable Concept, Minion Variable Concept fonts, the stroke stays solid.
    If you expand these, glyphs are united.

    However, if you do the same with Bahnschrift, Cascadia Code, Clash Grotesk Variable, Source Code Variable (and perhaps some other fonts), you get glyphs partitioned.

    To workaround this, we can use Pathfinder Add effect... but it won’t help if you have different fills applied to your characters.

    Why the results are different? why Illustrator treats some variable fonts as a collection of sub-parts, but others stay wholesome?

    13 votes

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  2. 26.5 Can not change text box's language in the Character Panel

    When I highlight text or select a textbox I can not change the language in the dropdown menu located in the character panel. When I am editing, all my textboxes and either English: USA or Ukrainian and I can not change them. My default is English: USA but for some reason half of my text is labeled Ukrainian and the Auto Spellchecker is saying every English word is misspelled.

    1 vote

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  3. Glyphs in a type on a path are placed wrong, rotate and shift

    Type on a path seems to be glitching. There may be some setting I'm overlooking, but it's certainly never been an issue before my last update. Characters are rotating and randomly spacing along a smooth, curved path, as if there were sharp turns in the path.

    Also, if I'm using type-along-a-path and then scale the objects with the text still live, the text will often glitch and then even if I undo the scale, it remains glitched.

    1 vote

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  4. Leading not Displaying Correctly

    Leading is not displaying properly in either the Character panel or in the Properties panel. Instead of showing the correct leading, Illustrator is showing the Auto value.

    Changing between the text, selection or direct selection tools does not solve the problem.

    2 votes

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  5. URGENT: Enter key does not work in any Type Tools Illustrator Beta 26.6.555

    Adobe Tech Support was unable to resolve.

    This was not a problem in the prior release of 26.6 before .555

    When using the type tool in any form, horizontal, vertical, etc., the enter key no longer inserts either a [CR] or [CR LF].

    This is inconvenient for working with headlines or titling (attached graphic), but an absolute dealbreaker for working with long text.

    4 votes

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  6. Hindi character paste in incorrectly

    When I copy Hindi text from another source (such as Outlook) and paste it into a text box in illustrator, the characters appeared in the wrong order

    1 vote

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  7. Fonts do not displaying on Character panel

    Select the text inside the illustrator and character panel is empty, never show any fonts be using. My computer didn't install the fonts but can display correctly in illustrator.
    When exported to PDF, can check the fonts is using Lora-Bold.

    I'm really frustrated and worries, how to check incoming files if always having this issue.

    Please help on this method.

    Version: Adobe illustrator 2022 and 2023
    MacOS : Big Sur and Window 10 Home

    1 vote

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  8. 26 votes

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    I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.0.1 which is available worldwide now.

    Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.

    You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

    Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!

  9. highlighted selection box not appearing for text

    When I select text, the bounding box appears, but when I select actual letters/words to edit, there is no highlighted/selection box showing me that I am selecting characters and which one. It's like I'm playing a bit of a guessing game: let's see if I actually selected the letters I meant to, fingers crossed!

    The picture attached shows through the character tool module that I've selected two slightly different fonts(same face & size etc, just different weight) but that the text itself doesn't appear to be selected. I've only selected the italicized to the blue text at the bottom of…

    1 vote

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  10. fonts not displaying online

    The specified typefaces rarely display online when sharing for review. They are being replaced by something else. This makes sharing a file online for review a waste of time. Even if I use an activated Adobe font, this font will unlikely be displayed in the browser. Even using a web friendly font doesn't help

    1 vote

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  11. Text highlighted with Layer color while I'm typing

    Hi!

    Do you have any idea why some of my Text objects stay highlighted with the Layer color while I'm typing (the yellow one in the video), and some don't (the orange one)?

    Cmd-H doesn't change that (the yellow one stays highlighted while I'm typing).

    Is this something in the Preferences, or Object settings, or Layer settings?

    Thanks a lot for your help!

    I'm on Mac OS 11.4, using Illustrator 27.0.1

    1 vote

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  12. Selecting text works poorly

    According to the screenshot, when I press the left mouse button in the place represented by the red triangle, the above text is selected. This place is completely beyond the scope of the word "Nature".

    Windows 10 Pro 64bit, AI 26.3.1. (64-bit)

    3 votes

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  13. Localization bug with variable font panel

    As shown, this is a variable font with 3 axes, the second axis is named "Italic", but it is incorrectly displayed as a localized text. I'm sure there is no localized name for this axis in the font file.

    The font file can be downloaded from here: https://symphosizer.wearecollins.com/fonts/ABCSymphonyDisplayVariable.ttf

    1 vote

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  15. Bullets and Numbering indentation changes

    Numbering moves away from the text when I make the text larger. It does not happen always. I have tested it a few times and found this issue.

    1 vote

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  16. Arial Bold comes out very condensed

    when i use Arial bold in default settings, it looks skinny. I will have to to stretch the width to 250% to make it look normal. See image please...

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  17. Text missing on .ai file when I preview it or bring it into Indesign

    OS Catalina v. 10.15.7, Illustrator v. 25.4.1

    Text is in the document (.ai file), but when I preview it or place it into InDesign it disappears. When I save it to a pdf from Illustrator it looks fine in preview, acrobat and InDesign. As a temporary fix I can place the pdf into Indesign, but that's not ideal.

    1 vote

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  18. Circular Text Rotation different on newest update.

    Opening a file with perfectly centered text on a circle is now off center. Live rotating seems to make the text hop around the circle not conforming to the rotation.

    2 votes

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  19. Font weights have disappeared from existing document in 27.0

    I opened an existing document, which used Quicksand in various weights. Now, with it opened via Illustrator 2023, all the weights have become one weight, ie light. There is nothing wrong with the Font, I am also using it in Indesign all the time, and it's working fine there. Please see screengrab, showing the PDF on the left (what it should look like) and Illustrator file on the right. The alert box only came up when I clicked on a text box, ie it wasn't there when i opened the document initially. Please help, this is a multi page document…

    1 vote

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  20. Bulleted text became outlined without performing "Create Outlines" action

    I found my text with added new bullet function became outlined text and cannot be edited anymore through type after closing and reopening the AI file.

    I have to retype the text, thus I am guessing that the bullet function may have triggered this because the rest of my text without bullet in that same file is still editable. Please help rectify. Attached two images of the outcome.

    1 vote

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