Bullets and Numbering characters disappear when outlining font
As per my title - If I use bullets and numbering in a text box, when I outline the text in the text box the bullets and numbering completely disappear.
Eddie Deighton
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Happening to me as well (I'm using the bullets style panel). Very annoying. I have to quit Illustrator, restart every time I need to outline text so bullets don't disappear.
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Yeah, please do. Elusive bugs are the worse!
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Eddie Deighton
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Hi Egor
I've just opened the file up to save it for you and, typically, the project is outlining fine now!
If it happens again I'll try and save it out or video. -
Eddie, if you still have the original document with this unduplicated text —perhaps you can make a copy of it, but delete everything else, to protect the data? I’d really prefer it get fixed... I’m glad the workaround exists, but I don’t like the bug still exists I’d also love to learn more about the difference it makes if you select this differently.
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Eddie Deighton
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Hi Egor
I'm using 27.5
I've just copied the paragraph to a new document and it outlines fine. I also duplicated the text within the same document and all text boxes with bullet points outline fine.
Also, if I first select all text using the type tool, then deselect and use the Selection Tool, it outlines fine as well!Unfortunately I cannot share the original document as it contains confidential information.
At least I have a workaround - duplicate the text and outline.
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Eddie, this is not the first time this bug crawls in Ai, but it’s been fixed almost immediately the last time...
Which version are you using?
Can you reproduce it in a new document?
Can you share a test file with this particular text piece only?Just to test — what if you don’t use Type > Create Outlines, but instead apply the Effect > Path Outline Object — do bullelts stay?
