Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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Weird Font punctuation behavior?Version: 23.0.6 
 OS: 10.14.6I'm experiencing weird font behavior with the Merriweather typeface in Illustrator. It only happens for this typeface and only in Illustrator. When I try to type ' ," ' (comma + end quote), the spacing inexplicably condenses. When I switch fonts, the spacing goes back to normal. I don't have any special character or glyph settings to my knowledge. I tried the same type combo in other tools (Photoshop, XD, Sketch), and it works fine and looks normal. This only happens in Illustrator. Any ideas? 1 vote
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Acumin Font ampersands not printing or appearing in PDFs correctly.Ampersands in Adobe's Acumin font are not printing correctly. Sections are being "cut out". When you outline the font, it doesn't appear to be making a compound shape 2 votes
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Pasting a text makes it loose its formattingmac OS 10.14.3 running AI 23.0.2 The issue seems to be random and can't replicate every time. If I copy a group formed by a path and text sometimes, when pasting, the path is expanded (?) and the text loses its format. When pasting "in Front" or "in Back" sometimes works but ussually pastes in the left upper corner of the artboard. When pasting a text in any possible way (in Front, in Back, in Place ... ) all format is missing. The result is a little task consuming double or more time as the expected, delaying my performance and… 4 votes
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Fat bold hidden charactersI'm tired of muzzy white-space-markers, carriage returns and line breaks. 
 Why are theese so fat and ugly?18 votesWe have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator 24.0.1 
 Or get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html
 Warm Regards,
 Ankit Goyal
 Illustrator Team
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Create Outline shortcut is not workingI'm not sure when this started happening but CTRL + SHIFT + O isn't working as a command for create outlines. Notes: All other key commands work fine My O key isn't broken The command is still correct in preferences Doing "Create Outlines" from the menu works just fine. I've tried reselecting, restarting, multiple documents. It's simply not working, It's very weird.. anyone? 5 votes
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On applying tracking via Properties panel, Illustrator issues like Tracking of complete paragraph changes, Bounding Box gets invisibleMacOS, multiple versions, multiple hardware configs 
 Illustrator CC2018 & 2019This has been reported on a number of other posts, but seems to keep being reposted as new entries, rather than upvoted.Since CC2018 the ability to adjust tracking in Illustrator has been broken. This appeared to begin with the introduction of the Properties Panel in CC2018, but the issues extend to the 'normal/traditional' Character Panel as well. When adjusting tracking on a single letter or group of letters, the program will glitch and the adjustment value shown in the panel will not reflect the value being incremented. Moreover, deselecting… 13 votesCompleted (Comments Open) · AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal
    (Principal Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator)
 responded AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal
    (Principal Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator)
 respondedI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 23.0.6 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! 
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Text always shows as blackSometimes, when I apply color to a text box (using the swatches or the eyedropper) the color shown on screen is black even though in the Appearance panel the Fill is the one I applied. 
 I made a screenshot (attached) to demonstrate4 votesResolved (Comments Open) · AdminIllustrator Engineering
    (Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
 responded AdminIllustrator Engineering
    (Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
 respondedHi, The attached screenshot displays the FILL color underneath the CHARACTERS in the APPEARANCE panel therefore any change applied to the FILL will not be displayed, to display it correctly please move the FILL color row on top of the CHARACTER row (Click & Drag) in the Appearance panel. Hope this helps to resolve this issue. With Best Regards, 
 Raghuveer Singh
 Illustrator Team
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Type Box fills with x'sWhen I choose the Type Box tool, and click in the document to create a Type Box or simply place text, as soon as the box is created, it fills with X's/squares and goes off on it's own continually typing the X/square. At that point I am not touching the keyboard, there is no key being held down, yet it seems to be "stuck" in creating the X/square. Initially it only happened with Myriad Pro, so I uninstalled that font. Then it continued to do it with Arial. Now it does it, no matter what. I've un-installed Illustrator and re-installed… 5 votes
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Type tool broken - insists on being anything but normal typeUnable to select the regular type tool. I get type on a path. This is a deal breaking flaw. 1 vote
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Editing Character Styles Does Not Trigger Content ChangeRenaming a character style does not trigger content change. Thus, the asterisk does not appear above the file name (indicating content change), File/Save or CMD/CTRL-S are ineffective, and if one closes and re-opens the file the old names are still there. Have not checked Paragraph styles, or styles in other Adobe apps, but assume this bug would present there as well. 3 votes
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Text becomes impossible to edit after several minutes of having the program openWorking on macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and Illustrator 23.0.4. After working in the program for a few minutes, transform controls no longer appear around text boxes when selected (show transform controls does not fix the issue). Text attributes are then buggy when applied (tracking will not apply to selected word, can't change font). Shortly after, I can no longer select text boxes at all. I'm a graphic designer and this issue is hurting my productivity greatly. Please provide a solution! 1 vote
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Issues changing type character propertiesI have been having issues for a few weeks with illustrator not showing correct font or size. It used to be sporadic, but now it is happening the majority of the time! I even updated my Illustrator CC version & that didn't help. For example, I will click on some text that is Gotham 15 pt, but the character panel says it is Myriad 12 pt. When I try changing the font or the font size, nothing happens. It is getting to the point where I am not able to edit text size or font in my own files. Help! … 2 votes
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Colored text randomly changing to blackMac OS 10.12.6 with Illustrator CC 2019 Since December text has been randomly changing to black. It happens with bullets more frequently, but sometimes two words in a paragraph will turn black. This happens frequently when I reopen files but also while I'm working. Sometimes (but not always) when I change the color back with the eyedropper, it still shows up black in the Appearance panel (see photo). My 2 coworkers are also having this issue. I don't know if it's related, but I'm also having a problem with cutting (CTRL-X) objects. Simple shapes and text will temporarily not allow… 3 votes
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The typing I-beam pointer is missing sometimes.The cursor is missing on my student's PC even though they have installed the latest version of Illustrator CC. What is happening? 1 vote
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Text missing in SVG filesThis is the first time trying to use Illustrator since it updated to the newest version (23.0.1) and updating my Mac to High Sierra (10.14). I have previously used Illustrator to edit SVG files, specifically the text in those files. When I open similar SVG files in the new Illustrator, all of my text is missing. My computer is due for a small update which will go through later tonight but this seems like a bug within Illustrator. When I open the SVG in Photoshop 2019 and re-export it as a SVG, I am able to see the text in… 5 votes
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Changing font size or leading doesn't get applied but jumps with UndoWhen editing type, I will attempt to change its pt size or leading and no changes are made. When I attempt to undo those changes it jumps back about 10 steps. This happens at least once a day. I run the most recent macOS and CC. 1 vote
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Text Boxes & resizing objects in Illustrator Behaving StrangelyThis might be difficult to explain, but at the moment, when pasting text within Illustrator (it can be from a different artboard within the doc, or from a different Illustrator doc, or Word, basically it doesn't seem to matter where the text comes from) or if just create a new text box and type within it, and try to resize the box, it seems to create more text boxes within the main box, and the text would 'snap' into the smaller box. If I stretch the box wider, the text will 'snap' back into the bigger box again, and I… 5 votes
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Weird font rendering problemI have a client-provided font (IND-Hoboken Sans) that is rendering W (capital w) strangely. The apex should be square/flat, but Adobe apps (I used Illustrator as my test, but I've seen the same problem in Photoshop as well) render the 1st & 3rd apex on an angle (even more bizarrely, different angles). Other applications (Font Book, TextEdit, MS Word, Keynote) render the character square as expected. Most bizarrely, Acrobat does NOT have this problem & renders the character as the system does (ie. as expected). As a test, I created an Illustrator file with the same word as both live… 1 vote
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Type size not working after scaling text with transform/scaleAfter selecting a line of type with the selection tool, and then scaling it with right click, transform / scale / 'percentage' , I can then no longer assign different type sizes in pixels or points to the text using the text tool. 1 vote
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Tilde shows up in text boxIllustrator CC 23.0.3 Precision 5820 Tower,Intel Xeon W2102 
 16 GB RAM, 64 bit, Win 10 ProWorking with any text box, the tilde character shows up at insertion point. Even if no typing is happening. 1 votePlease accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here. 
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