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  2. text change when opening in Illustrator CC 2019

    Illustrator 23.0.1 on Mac OS 10.12.6
    I have issues when I open a document that was created in Illustrator CC2017 in CC 2019. It seems that the text spacing is different, so sometimes some characters are changing to the next line!
    See example exact same document between CC 2017 and CC 2019

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  3. Vectorise text doesn't work on text mask

    There's a bug in Illustrator (all versions MacOS 10.12.6):
    when there's a non-vectorised text mask in a file and you do select all -> vectorise text, the non-vectorised text mask will not be vectorised.
    Then when you re-open the file on a computer without the active fonts, it won't give you a warning that there's a missing font!
    Only when you click on the mask it will say that there's a font missing.

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  4. Type Tool Craziness

    The latest update to Illustrator CC seems to have completely rendered the type tool useless. It's not stable, it has trouble selecting text. It has trouble staying active. Is this a compatibility issue with the touch pad? If need be, I can create a screen recording of all the craziness it's doing.

    Using a MacBook Pro 2018 with 32gb Ram
    OSX Mojave 10.14

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  5. Type on Circle Path Centers at 45º

    When I type on a circular path, something I've done a million times, it now centers at 45º instead of 90... despite anchor points at the cardinal NESW.

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  6. Letter outlines distorting bug

    In type, I noticed that some curve points looked like they had 'kinked'.
    But checking the Glyphs font master and the generated font, all was fine.
    Strange thing is that in Illustrator the actual vector line is correct (no kink, in highlighted blue on the attached image) but the black-filled area DOES have a kink (see the version where I added a magenta outline - the circle indicates a kink).

    It’s like Illustrator is rounding off the values of the point placements when rendering on-screen displays, but still preserving the actual paths (which are not seen when printed - just…

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  7. General Performance Issues and Font Issues

    The Issue that I'm having see screenshots happens randomly in adobe applications like Illustrator.

    I followed the instruction the adobe support gave me with the link, but there where no issue so I send you the last step, more details. Re-install fonts or Creative Cloud etc. don't solve the problem. I have this problems here and there since more than a year now.

    macOS Mojave Version 10.14.02 (Issue appears also in older versions)

    The latest Issue I have sometimes is, If I save the Illustrator file and saving is done, Illustrator jumps back 3-4 steps (undo). So after I save…

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  8. I fail to change default fonts in Illustrator CC 21.0.0 with the method on web

    I fail to change default fonts in Illustrator CC 21.0.0 with the method on https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/fonts.html#Changethedefaultfont. I changed the Character Styles, but type is still Song type

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  9. 🐛 Illustrator CC2018 doesn't show certain font styles while Adobe Xd does.... [BLOCKER!!!!]

    The font style is visible in all tools but not in Illustrator and Photoshop. What is more than annoying... A hotfix would be nice because it's definitively a colossal blocker!

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  10. Font is huge when using text

    When I try to type the text tool types in HUGE font. What do I do?

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  11. Text content differs from "path" preview to print preview

    Text content differs from "path" preview (Cmd Y) to print preview (or GPU). In my example, the word "Optipro" appears at the GPU Preview and disappears when I use the Cmd Y preview.

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  12. Wrong font preview for RTL languages

    There are a few problems with the new fonts preview in the last version of Illustrator.
    1. Even though 'Selected Text' preview option is selected the preview shows first five Hebrew alphabet letters instead.
    2. This happens weather the text box is selected or the text itself.
    3. Sometimes the 'Selected Text' preview is shown. In those cases it's shown backwards (LTR instead of RTL).

    This happens in spite of the fact that the text box is marked as a 'Hebrew' one and 'RTL Arabic' digits is selected.
    I'm using a Mac running OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra.

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    Hi Eli,

    Not all the fonts have all the glyphs available with them to show the preview. For the fonts where glyphs are not available, we show the default sample preview (that’s why you get first five glyphs for those fonts)

    Hope This helps.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator QE

  13. Paragraph Styles reverting back

    Adobe for MacOS version 23.01

    I updated a paragraph style I've been using since the last version. So when I save the document it reverts some of the paragraphs to the previous paragraph style.

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  14. 1 vote

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. Hyphenate problem in Italian

    In Italian istituto is i-sti-tu-to

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