[Illustrator 26] Text offset from original path, but some is still linked

Hi all - this appears to be a widespread issue and Adobe is aware. See this Community thread and this bug report. ​@harrisoncole’s solution does provide a fairly straightforward fix for existing files, but I’m hoping a more proactive solution is implemented by Adobe soon.

Hi ​@sguilford An interesting experiment would be to try each of the following, separately, and note the result, ie. does the problem go away after any of the following interventions?

1. Copy and paste one of the faulty items
2. Copy and paste faulty item into a new document…
3. With the text tool, select and change the text (content) of one of the faulty items.
4. With the text tool, select and change some attribute of one of the faulty items, eg baseline shift.

If any of these fix the corruption, perhaps they could be applied en masse? Or at least you could share a document with just one example item, even with contents replaced with lorem ipsum?

– Mark

I have a partial solution. It fixes the issue with text on paths, however other text will have to be re-placed manually.

1. Select labels on paths.
2. Grab a handle on the bounding box and move it– the text should snap back into place.
3. Undo the transform and the text should stay in place.

Thank you. It is acceptable that you cannot share the file for some reason.

Unfortunately, at least I am then not able to inspect the issue reasonably and therefore cannot provide any useful advice.

Someone else may chime in.

Can you share this Illustrator file?