Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
When reporting a bug, please provide a detailed description with the following:
- Details of your operating system
- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop)
- The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues
- Your expected result and the actual result
- Upload your Illustrator file or a video (screen recording or gif, this helps us most to reproduce the issue and resolve it)
807 results found
-
Contextual alternates don’t work for Cyrillic letters with Adobe Single-line and Every-line composers
While Ai allows to pick a contextual alternate for Cyrillic letters for fonts that support them, it actually works only for Middle-Eastern & South-Asian composers, but is visually ignored for Adobe Single-line and Every-line composers.
Take a look at the GIF attached.
5 votes -
Modifying paragraph / character style doesn't trigger the unsaved changes flag
Illustrator doesn't prompt to save changes to paragraph styles if no other changes are made to a document.
To reproduce:
1. Create a document, add a paragraph style, save and close.
2. Reopen document, modify the paragraph style, close document.Expected:
At the end of step 2, when closing the document, Illustrator should ask if I want to save my changes, but it does not. After modifying the paragraph style, I can also see that the asterisk (*) does not appear next to the filename on the current tab, which normally indicates unsaved changes.28.2 on macOS 12.6.5
5 votes -
Leading (line spacing) not shown, blank, in Character panel
OS:
Various Mac OS versions and hardware, including M2 Mac Studio and M3 MacBook Pro. Confirmed in screenshots on:
Mac Sonoma 14.1
Apple M3 Pro
36GB of RAMILLUSTRATOR VERSION:
Various versions. Confirmed on Adobe Illustrator 2024 v28.0 (used for screenshots). This happens across computers and OS and Illustrator versions.STEPS TAKEN:
Opened file and clicked on text.EXPECTED RESULTS:
Selecting text should show leading in Character Panel.ACTUAL RESULTS:
Leading field is blank in Character Panel.Leading (line spacing) is sometimes not shown in the Character Panel. The field is blank. This can occur when selecting many characters, which…
5 votes -
Accent changes fonts
When we use Variable Concepr Fonts if I write text that contain letters with accents, the style of the typography changes. It's quite annoying.
OSX Ventura 13.6
Illustrator CC2024
(See image)5 votes -
Retype does not work at all in Czech version of Illustrator CC 2024 (28.0)
The Retype function does not work at all on Windows 10. All attempts end with the message Selection not recognized. It doesn't matter if it's a vector, a bitmap. It doesn't recognize anything. Not even Hello in Helvetica.
On MacOS 13.4.1 the app displays possible similar fonts but you can’t select them, download them, nothing. Dead end.Nice work, Adobe!
5 votes -
クラウドドキュメントで文字スタイルを削除した後開き直すと削除した文字スタイルが表示される
環境
macOS 12.6.3
Illustrator 26.5.2 および 27.3.1再現方法
1. 新規書類を作成し文字スタイルを作成しクラウドドキュメントとして保存する。
2. 1で作成した文字スタイルを削除してドキュメントを閉じる。
3. 閉じたクラウドドキュメントを開くと削除したはずの文字スタイルが表示されるただし1で作成したクラウドドキュメントを開きその文字スタイルを編集したり新たな文字スタイルを追加した後に削除した場合はそのクラウドドキュメントを開き直しても削除した文字スタイルは表示されませんでした。
クラウドドキュメントのみで発生する事象でコンピュータに保存したドキュメントでは発生しないことを確認しています。
5 votes -
When checking spelling, Illustrator does not move to the selected area of the page making it harder to see the "error" in context.
Have the viewable are move to the offending spelling like it does with InDesign.
5 votes -
Symbol items not converted to outlines
Currently, symbols containing text and placed on an artboard, are not converted to outlines when executing this step.
5 votes -
Random text disappearing from box
Big Sur 11.4
Adobe Illustrator 25.3.1When I open some of my ai files the text inside a text box disappears. If I try to create a new text box to replace that text it keeps disappearing. This only happened to me after updating to Big Sur. It's extremely frustrating as I haven't found a way to work around it.
First photo is how it appears when I look at a preview of the ai file before opening, second photo is what it looks like when I open the file. (Don't mind the black lines, I wanted to keep that…
5 votes -
Illustrator not outlining type correctly
I've only started to encounter this recently and it doesn't happen with all fonts. When I outline certain typefaces - such as your Source Sans - it outlines parts of some letters individually, such as the bar in the letter 'A' in the attached example, or does some bizarre detour as seen in both the comma and the apostrophe (the two most typical examples I could think of).
All I am doing is outlining type with no stroke.
I'm running Illustrator 24.3 and Catalina 10.15.6
5 votes -
Can't move text along path - vertical line handles missing
The vertical lines that usually show up when pushing text along the path is missing. Even when using Direct Selection Tool, there are no handles to control the direction and placement of text along a path which is very frustrating.
Operating System:
Macbook Pro (retina, mid 2015)
macOS Mojave V10.14.5
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Illustrator v24.1.25 votes -
Activating fonts in Illustrator takes too long
The process of activating fonts in illustrator is taking way too long. Is there a way to make the process faster?
5 votes -
Create Outline shortcut is not working
I'm not sure when this started happening but CTRL + SHIFT + O isn't working as a command for create outlines.
Notes:
All other key commands work fine
My O key isn't broken
The command is still correct in preferences
Doing "Create Outlines" from the menu works just fine.
I've tried reselecting, restarting, multiple documents. It's simply not working, It's very weird.. anyone?
5 votes -
Type Box fills with x's
When I choose the Type Box tool, and click in the document to create a Type Box or simply place text, as soon as the box is created, it fills with X's/squares and goes off on it's own continually typing the X/square.
At that point I am not touching the keyboard, there is no key being held down, yet it seems to be "stuck" in creating the X/square.
Initially it only happened with Myriad Pro, so I uninstalled that font. Then it continued to do it with Arial. Now it does it, no matter what. I've un-installed Illustrator and re-installed…
5 votes -
Text missing in SVG files
This is the first time trying to use Illustrator since it updated to the newest version (23.0.1) and updating my Mac to High Sierra (10.14). I have previously used Illustrator to edit SVG files, specifically the text in those files. When I open similar SVG files in the new Illustrator, all of my text is missing. My computer is due for a small update which will go through later tonight but this seems like a bug within Illustrator. When I open the SVG in Photoshop 2019 and re-export it as a SVG, I am able to see the text in…
5 votes -
Typing in Hebrew it RTL
Whenever I try typing in Hebrew the letters go in the wrong direction, and I have no option in the paragraph pannel to change it as I know there is supposed to be. What should I do?
5 votes -
Using scale tool on justified text results in changing line breaks
Illustrator CC 22.0.0 on Windows 10 x64 Pro
Have a column of Area Text, justified, with carefully defined line breaks so that words are hyphenated at particular places, or not hypenated at all.
When using either the scale tool (shift+click to scale proportionally) or the transform tool, all of the content should scale proportionally and the line breaks should not be changed.
The resulting rescaled text column has very slight changes to the line breaks. While shift+dragging, the text looks correct (just scaled proportionally, without any reflow or stretching), but when releasing the mouse, there is suddenly some text reflow…
5 votes -
Cannot use Alt with Eyedropper to apply sampled style to other sections of text
Cannot use Alt with Eyedropper to apply sampled appearance to other objects
Mac OS High Serra 10.13.3
Illustrator CC 2018 (22.1)I used to (in CS6) be able to copy a text style by using the Eyedropper once and then holding Alt to apply it to other sections (the Eyedropper icon would be mirrored left-right when holding Alt).
Now if I hold Alt, I'm getting the hand (pan) tool.
How can I get the "apply style" tool instead please?
NB: it still works with objects (background of text area in the example video), but not with text anymore.
5 votes -
Text block cursor not indicating the actual cursor location.
Text block cursor not indicating the actual cursor location.
This has happened a few times to me, but is not consistent.When editing text in a type block I use the pointer to hi light the area where changes are required but the changes occur at a different point in the text.
I have attached an image to clarify this - the black editing block is hi lighting the additional space I intend to delete but the actual character deleted is a few characters away (in this case the letter 'f' which shows with a blue edit line in this…5 votes -
Text in exported PNGs or EPS files is blurry
When exporting to a PNG or EPS, the text in the file are blurry and I cannot use for anything. You can see how jagged the edges are.
5 votes
- Don't see your idea?