Colored text randomly changing to black
Mac 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 me to cut them.
Nick
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Anonymous
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My text is randomly changing from white to no color and if I open the paragraph style it has indeed reverted to no fill. If I reassign the color back to white, it changes the text (and the style) and the file will save correctly, but then sometimes reverts again to no color (appears black because it is on a background). I have more than a hundred files and so this is really frustrating, has anyone found a solution? Thanks. (CC 2021 on an iMac running 10.15.7--Catalina).
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donna
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I have this problem when using paragraph styles. I create styles and apply them, save the file and close. Sometime when I reopen the files, all the colors are black instead of whatever they were in the paragraph style. In editing the style I see that yes indeed, they are black rather than the color I named previous to reopening the file. NOTHING ELSE CHANGES. The style is correct except for the color.
I am to the point that I just use the styles on the initial layout and then delete them so my text will stay the right color (obviously not how paragraph styles SHOULD work)
What's annoying is that is happens very randomly. Yesterday I created 10 files using styles for text formatting. This morning I have edits to make and one of those files did not retain the colors used in styles.. prior to yesterday, the last time this happened was close to a year ago so I wasn't watching for it this time.