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November 9, 2022
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Adobe XD's text box bugs

  • November 9, 2022
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Hello and sorry if this has been posted again.
But this is a persistent and old problem...

Annoying Adobe XD bug that is still active after lots of versions:

In relatively large documents, with many artboards and images, randomly, when double clicking at least point type text boxes, there isn't a selection background, you can't see what is selected. And also, you can't type in anything. Click another text box may lead to similar results. From that point onward, the best solution would be to close Adobe XD and reopen it. 

This may happen an hour after opening a file, or half an hour, or less, or more, or not happen. It doesn't necessarily happen daily (but it may happen more times a day). But it definitely happens often enough that is not a once-in-a-month problem.

A variation of this is that text boxes sometimes can only be unselected (and lose focus) by using the Esc key. Clicking outside them, when they're active for editing the text inside, doesn't work.

Another very annoying thing is that you can't scale a text box, unless it is point type (area type can't be resized proportionally, while also resizing the text within it).

For clarification, I refer to when creating/editing an XD file, not when using prototypes or something else.

This happens on Windows 11, happened on Windows 10 too (probably nothing to do with the Windows version, nor with the Adobe XD version).

Thank you!

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Spas K.
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 9, 2022

Hey there. It is indeed an old issue, one which I personally don't think will ever be fixed, as Adobe has said it's a Windows / Microsoft problem which needs to be fixed by them. With Adobe's move to acquire Figma, I doubt this fix will be a priority and we still don't know how things will be moving forward after the acquisition.

 

Your fastest fix is Alt+Tab to a different window and back to Xd. You don't have to restart it.

mtn45400Author
Participant
November 9, 2022
Thanks a lot!

All the best!
mtn45400Author
Participant
December 16, 2022

Thanks again for this incredibly simple (Alt + Tab) tip, that has transformed literally the usefulness of Xd, and has made it very usable.

Though Xd is fast to start and to work in (unlike Illustrator, for instance), the text box bug happens so, so often, that it was very annoying to close and open Xd everytime (and though it starts fast, if you have a huge file by the number of artboards and assetts, it takes a few good seconds to open it).