Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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When setting the leading, cannot select "auto"
When trying to set the leading, cannot re-select "auto"
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zoom
When snap to grid is on, it will only create new text. It won't select existing text for editing - probably because it isn't on the grid. This never used to happen before the latest update.
2 votesHi,
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.
With Best Regards,
Raghuveer Singh -
most fonts not rendering
I have to continually uninstall and reinstall 75% of my fonts! They show up in the panel, but do not render when selected. This is way beyond aggravating and is taking up hours of my time daily.
These are fonts on my hard drive, not typekit or any other font service. using Windows 10 and Illustrator CC 2018 (happened intermittently with 2017, now it's everytime I open Illustrator or let it sit open for more than a few hours)2 votesClosing the ticket since didn’t hear back from customer.
Hi Jamie,
If you are still facing this issue, 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 -
Text and Objects Randomly Rotating
When I move text or an object, I will always notice they get slightly rotated. It's hard for the eye to see it sometimes, but the guide lines will show that things get slightly rotated sometimes for no reason.
2 votesMost probably Constrain Angle in Preferences > General is not zero.
Read more about this parameter here, in 'Rotate the x and y axes of a document' section.
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Delay of text cursor
- Illustrator 22.0.0 (64-bit).
- There is a delay in the text cursor showing up when it's moved with arrows or a text path is newly clicked, requiring one to wait for it before being able to continue working.
- The text cursor should be immediately visible.
- There is a delay instead of a couple seconds. (That's a long time when making many moves in a row.)
2 votesHi,
I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – helpx.adobe.com/support.html. Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you. -
Editing tabs in Paragraph Styles crashes Illustrator.
Open attached tab_bug.ai file. Open the Paragraph Styles window. Edit the "Windfall back cover" style. Select the Tabs section. Move the tab to the right. Hit OK. Illustrator crashes.
I've already reported this at https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/31228633-demo-version-of-illustrator-crashes-constantly-de?tracking_code=a5435faf1626b3287df8c29b149793c7, but this is stripped down to the minimum possible case.
2 votesWe have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator CC 23.0.
Please refer to our knowledge base FAQ – https://illustrator.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1844590 if you face difficulty in update.
Or get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.htmlWarm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
Adobe. Make It an Experience. -
Variable font with Adobe World-Ready Composers
Variable font dont work with Adobe World-Ready Composers. (Only regular adobe composers) so no variable font on rtl launguage (working perfect on browser)
2 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our release – 23.0 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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Group selection + free transform no longer works on text boxes to resize area without changing text
When I have a textbox open in Illustrator, in the past I could use the group selection tool to select just the box surrounding the type and manipulate that without affecting the text but now the bounding box doesn't even appear when I have the box selected without the type.
Currently to manipulate the box without the type I would need to individually adjust each anchor point on the box, the free transform tool was previously very convenient for working around the fact that there's no actual feature to distinguish between manipulating the text box and the actual type but…
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Illustrator Font problem :((
A client's custom font that shows up InDesign and Photoshop is not showing up in Illustrator?!?!?!?!? What is the problem??? And how can I fix this?????
I have Font Book and have never had a problem, now I am trying to reload, restart, test, etc to get the font to show up with no luck.
Any ideas?
2 votesPlease get in touch with us at sharewithai@adobe.com or any of the other support channels.
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. -
After I type text, I can't correct a word. When I click on it it will select a new text box above it. I can only delete the entire text.
After typing a word/paragraph, I can not delete any part of the word except I can select it and delete the entire word/text box. I just got illustrator a couple of months ago and I have always had a problem with it, but now it doesn't work at all. Help!
2 votesHi,
I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – helpx.adobe.com/support.html. Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.Thanks.
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Can't select left aligned text, with an indent, by it's origin point
If I add an indent to left aligned text I can no longer select it by clicking on the origin point.
If however I add an indent to right aligned text I can still select it by the origin point.
Please could you fix this?
I'm on a 2023 MacPro M2 Ultra, Tahoe 26.4.1 running Illustrator 30.8.2
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Arabic text engine: keep letter shaping when converting to outlines
When Arabic text is converted to outlines in Illustrator, the letter shaping occasionally breaks on ligatures, and copy-pasting shaped text from InDesign into Illustrator still loses joining in some fonts. A more reliable Middle Eastern text engine, with a shaping check before outlining, would save a lot of manual rework for designers producing Arabic signage and transport guides.
Most of my Arabic layout work is for public information posters — timetables, tariffs and wayfinding.
A preflight warning when a glyph would lose its contextual form would be a small but valuable addition.
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Live text isn’t visible in linked .ai files
I link to .ai files to create client proofs. This way I can edit original full size artwork and have the letter sized presentation deck auto update once linked file is saved.
Live text does not display in linked instance of .ai files. Once text is outlined in full size file is becomes visible in linked instance.
MacOS Version 14.8.7
AI version 30.8.21 vote -
Libraries show a generic font in thumbnails instead of actual ones
My libraries now all update to having this generic font when I upload designs with text. And online, all my previously saved designs now all have the same font rather than the fonts they were previously. When I drag them back onto an artboard, they convert back into the previous font, so it's something to do with the libraries preview, I believe.
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Glyphs panel behaves differently for COLRv0/1 spec color fonts
Illustrator has been supporting COLRv0/v1-spec color fonts since early last year, which has been great to use, but lately I have been wondering if one feature of the Glyphs Panel is more a bug than intended.
When using a static COLRv0-built font, the Glyphs Panel is filled with separate "layered" characters of each glyph in black/white. With a high amount of characters this leads to an extremely cluttered panel.
When using one of my own COLRv0 designs, I noticed that while the static version has all these extra layers (see the images attached), a variable COLRv0 font doesn't preview any…
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Auto activate fonts option turns back on by it self
Auto font activate keeps turning back on after I turn it off. I do not want it on because I use my own font service and sometimes I already have the fonts. When it auto adds the font it makes it so the font doesn't work at all then I have to go in cc app and scroll forever (because there is no search) to remove the font.
Apparently the only fix is to completely turn of adobe fonts from the CC app which will remove all adobe fonts which is not what I want to do!! I still use…
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日本語入力ができなくなるバグ
【不具合報告】macOS Tahoe 標準日本語 IME が Adobe Illustrator でインライン入力に失敗する
■ 環境
・macOS Tahoe (26)
・Adobe Illustrator 29.8.6 および 30.3 の両バージョンで共通して発生
・IME: macOS 標準日本語入力（ライブ変換オフ）
・ハードウェア: Apple Silicon Mac■ 症状
Illustrator のテキストツールで日本語を入力しようとすると、未確定文字がアプリケーション内のカーソル位置（インライン）に表示されず、画面左下にフローティング変換ウィンドウとして表示される。変換ウィンドウ内で確定（Return）を押してもアプリケーション側に文字が入力されず、ウィンドウも消えない。Illustrator を再起動すると一時的に回復するが、数十分〜数時間の作業後に再発する。この症状は Illustrator のバージョンを変えても変わらないため、macOS Tahoe 側の IME の実装に起因する問題と考えられる。
■ 再現手順
1. Illustrator を起動し、任意のドキュメントを開く
2. テキストツールでテキストオブジェクトをダブルクリック
3. 数十分〜数時間日本語入力を継続する
4. 値わず、未確定文字がインラインではなく左下のフローティングウィンドウに出るようになる■ 試みた対処（すべて効果なし）
・アプリケーションおよびシステムの再起動
・対象アプリケーションのキャッシュ・環境設定リセット
・フォントキャッシュのクリア
・入力ソースの再登録
・ライブ変換の ON/OFF 切り替え
・アプリケーシンのバージョンダウングレード（30.3 → 29.8.6）■ 鈴決した事実
AppleScript による Illustrator への JavaScript 実行命令は正常に通るため、Apple Events 自体のブロックはない。IME とアプリケーション間のインライン入力連携（Text Input Client プロトコル）が切れることが原因と考えられる。■ 要望
macOS Tahoe の標準日本語 IME において、長時間使用後にインライン入力セッションが失われる不具合を修正していただきたい。特に Adobe Illustrator のようなプロフェッショナル送のドローイングアプリケーションでの再現性が高い。1 vote -
フォント Noto Sans
30.3.0にアップデートした途端Noto Sansが表示されなくなった。
バージョンダウンで戻ります。macOs
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Changing the Japanese font in the Type tool does not update it.
macOS Tahoe 26.2
Adobe Illustrator (Desktop version) 30.2.1Changing the Japanese font in the Type tool does not update it.
This occurs even when "Enable missing glyph protection" is initially set to OFF and no other settings are changed.This does not occur in macOS Vetura13.7.8
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Text Converted to Outlines Upon Copy in 2026 with Keyboard Maestro Installed
Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.0)
macOS Sequoia 15.7.1
Keyboard Maestro 11.0.4When copying a live text object in Adobe Illustrator 2026 (point type, area type, type on a path objects), pasting with CMD+V or Edit > Paste converts the text into outlines when Keyboard Maestro Mac automation software is running.
Quitting Keyboard Maestro Engine stops the behavior so that copying and pasting gives live text in the pasted object.
Disabling com.adobe.svg as a clipboard copy flavor also fixes the problem, allowing copy and paste to preserve live text instead of creating outlines.
This problem does not occur in Illustrator 2025 (29.8.3)…
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