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Automatic bulleted lists turns to outline

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August 11, 2022
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With the newly added "Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing" feature I noticed that upon re-opening the file, that text has been converted to an outlined text. Did anybody else encounter this behaviour? How did you manage to resolve it, aside from disabling that feature?

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Correct answer aelrayyes

Did you just save or "Save as"?

I just save it. I did disable the feature then re-enable it again and everything seems to work fine. It seems that this action has "reset" the proper functionality of the feature. It might have been something that did not reset with the newest Illustrator update.

Anyways, I am glad I don't need to re-type the text everytime I need to update the file.

Ton Frederiks

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Normally you get a warning when saving to an older file format, unless you turned it off by checking Don't Show Again.

You can turn the warning dialogs on again in Preferences General.

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phildlight01

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See last post. I didn't "save as", I only opened the file, created the bullet list, hit save "cmd+s" and closed. So I wouldn't have got a warning about saving to a legacy format because I was saving in native 2022 format.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

If you open an older file, create a bullet list and just save it, you will not get a warning when you have turned it off, but you will save it in an older (incompatible) format without knowing.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

If you open an older CC file (and save it as such) or save an AI 2020 file as a CC file you will get outlined bullet/number text.

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phildlight01

Known Participant

So this was an older CC file but it has been saved in illustrator 2022 before this issue came up (i.e., it should have already been a 2022 file when I created the bulleted list). Doesn't ai save as its current version by default? I didn't do a "save as" after I created the bulleted list, only "saved" the file and closed. Then reopened and it had converted to outlines.

Oddly, after I saved this text as a TIFF, opened the tiff in acrobat, selected the copy, pasted it back in the file, converted to bullet list, find/replace the bullet character and saved again, it now seems to work fine.

I tried a few more tests, and every time I save, it's functioning as expected (bulleted list remains). This is the 2nd time now that this has happened. Using ai 26.4.1 on Mac 12.5.1.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Was that a new file you created?

Where did you save it? And how?

Anything else in that file?

aelrayyesAuthor

Inspiring

It was not not an old file. It was created earler this year, but needed an update. For some reason, this was the only text frame that keeps converting to outline after saving and closing the file. None of the other untouched text frames converted to outline. Coming to think there might be a bug with this new feature.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Did you just save or "Save as"?

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