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  1. 24.2 Unable to use special characters: English OS, German regional settings and keyboard

    On a fresh English language Illustrator installation (English OS, German regional settings and German qwertz keyboard on Win10) I am unable to use any character that needs ALT GR as a Modifier. I therefore can not access €, @ | and a lot of pretty important letters. If that helps, Photoshop doesn't show this problem, but Indesign has similar issues. Other, non CC apps with English UI language work fine.

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  2. Illustrator 24.1.3 Type tool and text refresh

    I've been experiencing an error and annoying Type tool bug since the last update to AI 24.1.3. It happens when I type something and later I go back to edit it (for example adding extra text, fixing a type) and the change does not appear to occur until I switch to Outline view. Alternatively, if I option-drag the text path the duplicate path shows the correct text. This is an old error (at least in appearance) that was fixed several versions ago and now it's back.

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  3. font display with SAMPLE overprinted in menu

    the attachment shows what I see when I open the type/font menu on my computer. need to resolve this please.
    thank you

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  4. Text in connected Area Type Text boxes becomes very unstable when scaling

    1. MacOs Mojave 10.14.6

    2. What did:

    3. Made area type square object

    4. Copied it 13 times, connected it

    5. put this structure under mask (tried also to put every object under it's own mask- same result).

    6. added shape objects

    7. Scaled everything - everything fine.

    8. selected all the text in the structure and write new one with the same font/

    9. Scaled it

    10. Usually if you select this structure of connected area type boxes in company with some shape or object and scale all this, size of text in this boxes changes accordingly.

    11. Result differs every time. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes all the letters have…

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  5. Optical Kerning issue when outlining and scaling

    If you write something using optical kerning, copy it, paste in front and outline it, the outline matches up. However if you then scale both in pro, lets say 300%, then the live text no longer matches the outlined version (see attached example where the live text is in red and outlined vectors in black). This is causing us problems when scaling objects onto different panels but we are required to supply editable text. Logos etc are no longer exact scaled replicas!
    We are using CC 2019 (as our clients need files in this format).

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  6. Cannot activate new fonts

    I'm using Illustrator 24.1.2 with a creative cloud student subscription on Mac OS Catalina. When I try to activate any font not installed locally, the activation process will go on for five minutes, then terminate itself. No font would be installed. I Googled around for similar problems, and many suggested looking at the "Font" tab of the creative cloud app. I don't have that tab. The only tab in my creative cloud app is "Apps".

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  7. Cannot copy/paste Chinese font into Illustrator. Show box with X in it

    Cannot copy/paste Chinese font from PDF to Illustrator. Get squares with X's. Cannot change to a different font it defaults to MyriadPro. Also, I do not show Chinese under the Character drop-down.

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  9. Crashes when font file is moved *every single time*

    This will crash Illustrator (and InDesign and Photoshop) every single time without fail, all cc 2020 apps I've tested, specifically:

    InDesign 15.0.2, Illustrator 24.1, Photoshop 21.1.2

    I'm using OSX 10.15.3 Catalina

    Try this:

    –add a font to ~user/Library/Fonts/MyFontFolderName/ to install. Works with any font, but for example try Adobe's own wonderfully designed Source Serif Pro
    –make a new document in Illustrator, set some text in that font, eg: Source Serif Pro-Regular, save document (or don't save, same result)
    –move the font file, eg: SourceSerifPro-Regular.otf to a sub folder, eg: ~user/Library/Fonts/MyFontFolderName/AnotherFolder/
    –app will crash EVERY SINGLE TIME.

    Once again, this happens…

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  10. wrong characters Greek text

    When choosing Type->Change case->UPPERCASE on Greek accent letters, the accents disappear

    For example:

    σπανάκι ψιλοκομμένο σε μερίδες

    Illustrator: ΣΠΑΝΑΚΙ ΨΙΛΟΚΟΜΜΕΝΟ ΣΕ ΜΕΡΙΔΕΣ <- Wrong!

    Indesign, Word...

    ΣΠΑΝΆΚΙ ΨΙΛΟΚΟΜΜΈΝΟ ΣΕ ΜΕΡΊΔΕΣ <- Right!

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  11. when highlighting text and shift + eye dropping to get text colour only

    This action produces random results (like the text has two colours on it)

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  12. Text element with multiple paragraph styles & colors turns white when adding used colors

    I have a text element with two paragraphs and have assigned a style to each paragraph. One paragraph style is a different color, for emphasis.

    When I go to Swatches (palette) > Add Used Colors, all of the text turns white (invisible against a white artboard) and a swatch named "K=0" is added to the swatches palette. This can be avoided by setting all Paragraph Styles to black or no color and using Character Styles to apply color, but that's not really how the styles are supposed to work.

    If the paragraph and character styles ever are fully functional in

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  13. After using a Chinese type input, some of the punctuations are stuck in Chinese after switch input/typeface/restart

    After using a Chinese type input, some of the punctuations are stuck in Chinese even after switching input/typeface/restart

    This issue also effects Photoshop, please notify those guys as well!

    Please fix ASAP

    Macos 10.15.3
    Ai 24.0.3
    MacBook Pro 16in

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  14. Font Sample Halt

    Hi,

    I'm frustrated that as I run down my list of fonts testing them on a specimen of type that the font scroll halts for no apparent reason, forcing me to use the down arrow and manually select the font I want to try the specimen on.

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  15. Goudy Old Style Font Style "Bold" is not available

    Creative Cloud shows 4 font styles for Goudy Old Style - regular, regular italic, bold, extra bold. I select all 4 to import to ai, but the BOLD font style doesn't come over - only the other 3. I have the AppleIOS version - AI 2020.. Thanks, Chet

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  16. Headline gone on export to PNG.

    When I export to PNG the file loses my headline. Whether the font is set to color or not. I distills a PDF properly.

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  17. Text in opened SVG is wrong size and outside artboard in v23.1 and v24.0.2

    In newer versions of Illustrator (23.1 and 24.0.2, for example) the text in our SVG files may appear at the wrong size and outside the artboard. This incorrect text commonly appears at the top-left.

    The ZIP file contains a problem SVG, a preview JPG of how it should appear, and any customer-provided files used in the design.

    Also attached are copies of each version's System Info readouts and a screenshot of a problem design open in AI 24.0.2.

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  18. Type tool not working properly

    Running Windows 10 and Ai version 24.0.2
    Trying to hit a return between words in a text sentence, neither the backspace or delete or enter work. No it's not a keyboard issue, since it works with any other program without a problem. This bug is also happening to several machines in the work place consistently. We need to close the whole application so it responds to this text command issue, but after having the document open for a little time it does it again.
    I expect to be able to edit my text... this is a big one...

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  19. Character styles do not allow for optical alignments and kerning

    Paragraph style applied to text area does not allow for optical margin alignment.

    Not sure why this is happening but one paragraph style will let me kern punctuation outside of the box, and then another one will not. Instead, the character styles flicker around as I kern and will not change.

    Converting the paragraph style to another one fixes this issue - but reappears when I apply the intended style.

    Mac OSX Catalina.

    Shown - top: Un-kernable
    Bottom: kernable

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  20. "Show Hidden Characters" is disabled every time "Export for Screens" is used

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Open / create a document with any text
    2. On the application menu enable Type -> Show Hidden Characters
    3. Next do File -> Export -> Export for Screens
    4. Export a file or cancel out, both trigger the issue
    5. Notice the Hidden Characters are no longer visible
    6. Confirm on the application menu that the feature is disabled

    Happens on Illustrator 24.0.1 (64 bits), on Windows 10.

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