Re: HELP! Disappearing text on path

Ton Frederiks

I understand the risks. It seems fixed for new files, but older files that were saved with the problem still keep the problem. I would make it a habit to nudge the content of older files (maybe write an action).

Ton Frederiks

You need to export from Illustrator as PSD and use the Write Layers option (and even blend modes and transparency are recognized). The layer organisation may look different in Photoshop.

Ton Frederiks

It is a messy subject and most of the time it depends on the pdf viewer/plug-in if the hyperlinks work. If you have live text in your url, Acrobat and for example Preview on Mac will detect the url and make it a clickable link, even if the Preserve Hyperlinks option is off when saving the PDF. But browsers do not recognize these links. Browsers willonly recognize the hyperlinks that were added in the Illustrator Attributes panel using the Image Map option, or the hyperlinks that are added/detected in Acrobat using Edit > Edit a PDF > Link

Ton Frederiks

Put the circle on top of the image. Select both the circle and the image. Choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make

Ton Frederiks

Good to hear that helped. You are not the first and willl not be the last with that problem.

Ton Frederiks

View > Show Bounding Box? Shift Cmd B or Shift Ctrl B

Ton Frederiks

Which version of MacOS and Illustrator are you using? If I turn off the setting to record my screen, Illustrator can still pick up colors with the eyedropper from within the document. If I move the eyedropper outside the Illustrator window it does not pick up colors from my screen.

Ton Frederiks

Can you show the Appearance panel with the group selected? As far as I know this has always worked liked this, an effect or blending mode applied to a group will disappear when the objects are ungrouped.

Ton Frederiks · Nov 25, 2024

How do you create those boxes, just draw a rectangle and the phantom shapes appear?

Ton Frederiks · Nov 25, 2024

Looks like this problem.: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/46897540-type-on-path-characters-vanish-and-appear-scattere What happens if you Select All and nudge everything (using an arrow key) to the right and nudge it back to the left? Save the file, it should behave in the recent version

Ton Frederiks · Nov 25, 2024

Good to hear you found the solution.

Ton Frederiks · Nov 25, 2024

Cropping is always rectangular, you may want to use a clipping mask: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/clipping-masks.html

Ton Frederiks · Nov 25, 2024

I can see them in the Color Settings (click the More Options button) at the bottom of the Profile list when I installed them here: /Users/yourusername/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/PSOcoated_v3.icc

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 25, 2024

Did you check if there is any Snap to active in the View menu that coul cause this?

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 25, 2024

Good to hear that helped.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 25, 2024

Utilities in (like Magnet as Monika mentioned) can interfere with Illustrator's behaviour. Check what else is running when you run Illustrator.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 25, 2024

Where do you scale it down? Zooming out on your image in the browser as well as scaling in Illustrator does not show those white artifacting

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 25, 2024

Did you try booting the system in Safe Mode? https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/resolve-slow-performance-and-unexpected-behaviors-in-illustrator/td-p/11561981

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

I agree with Jacob, you can have multiple versions installed, try opening the files and check them in versions before 29.1. Also check if your hardware has changed, monitor, video card. If you can, share a problem file here. Save as PDF or rename the .ai extension to .pdf to attach it to a forum post.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

And previous CC versions did not have that problem? Or did you go from CS6 to 29.1?

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

Did you check if it is not a GPU preview problem? Try if switching between GPU and CPU makes a difference: Cmd E (Mac) or Ctrl E (Win).

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

Is your document a CMYK document?

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

Just deinstall the older one. You can have multiple versions installed and it is an option during installation to deinstall older versions.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

Things change, you can install older versions here:

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 24, 2024

See: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/49111304-font-changes-from-the-default-one-to-another-while?linkId=100000311010003

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 23, 2024

That could be another option, as long as you keep a non-rasterized version as backup for eventual edits.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 23, 2024

You could try if this works for you: Create the objects with the screen effect in an RGB document. Select them together with the background and choose: Object > Flatten Transparency with a High Ressolution preset. Copy and paste the result in a CMYK document. It may be useful to keep an unflattened copy of the RGB version, the flattened one will be partially uneditable.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 23, 2024

Linking does not work, but you could drag the file with the links to a CC library and Alt-drag it into other documents. It will embed the file, but the links work.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 23, 2024

Good to hear that the reboot magic worked.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Nov 23, 2024

Good to hear that helped.

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