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  1. Text selection not showing highlighting after macOS High Sierra 10.13 download

    When selecting any text, the text is not highlighted, thus removing my ability to know what I have selected. I am running a mid 2010 MacBook Pro. All was working well until I updated to macOS High Sierra 10.13. I have done all work arounds with no success.

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    Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – 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.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator team

  2. Fonts Slow EVERYTHING Down

    Fonts are the slowest feature in programs from MS Office to Adobe. This problem just caused me to lose work because AI shut down while trying to figure out how to manage a standard font with which I was working. Thanks for nothing AI and your simpleton font generators. You're fired.

    3 votes

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  3. Small Caps no longer working as it should

    Illustrator 2017.1.0. Setting the Small Cap percentage no longer works for some fonts. They seem to have their own default setting that is unaffected by changing the percentage in the Document Setup window. In the attached example, Small Caps is set to 90%. In the first two font examples, you can see it's nowhere near that. If I change the setting, the bottom word will change but the top two remain the same. This is terrible!!

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  4. Hyphenate problem in Italian

    In Italian istituto is i-sti-tu-to

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  5. Live font preview panel isn´t working

    Hi to all.

    I think that this is a old bug, but I already update AI to the latest version (CC 22.1) and the problema remains… This is really frustrated. Can you please, help?

    I'm sending images in attach.

    Best regards,
    Rute

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  6. CC font preview not working any more

    When I start typing a font name in the character box I used to get the related font preview pop up , this no longer works at all and is very irritating

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  7. TEXT NOT REFRESHING

    Text not refreshing when making changes to a text box. I turned off GPU performance and the problem persists.

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  8. Selected font in CC2018 doesn't stick

    Problem when I opened a type sample page I made with Universal News with Commercial Pi, and almost all characters became the rectangle with X inside. I can select the block, then UNwCP and I can see the text changing as I select the face . . . but when I leave the Character pallet, the field blanks.

    Also, if I select one character and type over it, the face becomes Minion. In the sample, see 8, 9, and zero.

    Similarly, in InDesign, I can select a single character and then UNwCP, and the pallet changes to New Century Schoolbook…

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  9. Undo randomly groups texts

    After hitting undo a few times will cause a random text to be selected and cannot be unselected. I don't know which text has been selected either. Only way to find out is to direct select each text and try to edit them. That's the only way to exit out of the selection as well. I've found this problem over and over again.

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  11. Font problem

    every time I try to type something on a clean sheet my letters ( no matter what font I use) look like someone cut through them. Can you help and tell me why is this happening?

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  12. Illustrator not recognizing Arial font after setting up new computer

    HI All, Sorry if this is posted in the wrong spot, but this is my first post. I recently set up a new work computer (MacBook pro, High Sierra 10.13.6 ) to replace my older computer. I have typically made PDF's in illustrator using Arial font, but now when I open these older PDF's the text id highlighted as when the font is not recognized . as well if I import Arial text from excel it pastes it as symbols.

    When I look for Arial in my type pull down it is not available and when I look in the…

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    It is possible there is a font conflict and you have multiple version of Ariel on your machine. e.g. a TTF and another OTF
    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.

  13. the font style file has not been installed

    Just recently purchased CC 2018. Although I have been using Illustrator since 1998, this is the first time I have worked with CC. And I'm having issues with the Type in Illustrator - it seems the font style file has not been installed [???] - for example with the Font Myriad Pro - there should be an option of regular, regular italic, bold, bold italic, etc - I can only get regular.

    This issue HAS to be resolved or there is no point in continuing to use CC 2018. Please let me know what I need to do - does…

    1 vote

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  14. Font drop down doesn't work on CS6 all of the sudden

    I have Windows 10 and Illustrator CS6. Worked great until a couple weeks back.
    The font drop down does not work at all. Not in character map, not in type>fonts.
    I unisntalled Illustrator CS6, Re-downloaded the file from Adobe, re-installed. nothing
    I uninstalled windows 10 updates for 2 months... nothing...
    Please I need this to work!

    3 votes

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  15. Font drop down not showing

    My font list has started to not show. Im not sure what is causing it as it was ok then suddenly it stopped showing. Please see the attached file for more.

    2 votes

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  16. Most of the fonts cannot show and load in the list of AI CS6

    Most of the fonts cannot show and load in the list of AI CS6 suddenly today. The down arrow button (red circle in the attached picture) of the font list is not working (no response), but I can still choose other fonts by clicking up/down keyboard arrow to choose around 10 fonts (my computer installs over than hundreds fonts!).
    Also, all fonts are still working in Photoshop and MS Office. Can anyone help on this? Thanks!

    4 votes

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  17. Regional - Indian Font Issues

    Google Fonts that work for hindi and other regional languages seem to get messed up when used in illustrator. Please help urgent. Tried Noto Sans, Sarala font..

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    Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.
    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.

    Warm Regards,
    Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator

  18. Major Type issues

    Having major dramas with type. I cannot select any existing type in any file. I cannot add any type either. On the rare occasion that any cursor may appear, it is so tiny as to be impossible to see anything. On typing, no text appears at all.
    Extremely weird and extremely frustrating.

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    I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
    Please get in touch with us at sharewithai@adobe.com or any of the other support channels – helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.
    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.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator Team

  19. Illustrator CC2018 request font

    1 - OSX High Sierra - 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5
    2 - Starting Illustartor it request to download some font (see attached file)
    3 - Tryed to download and Illustrator run correctly, but when I restart computer the messare is the same.
    I alsto tryed to re-install Illustrator but the bug stay
    4 - Every time I run Illustrator the message is the same.

    1 vote

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  20. illustrator text stroke misaligned in illustrator and when placed in photoshop as smart object

    Strokes seem to be misaligned when working on live small text and cannot be placed into photoshop correctly to apply FX. Adobe CC

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