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jessenicoli
jessenicoli
Inspiring
January 13, 2025
Question

New bullet feature spacing bug

  • January 13, 2025
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I am using the new Bullets and Numbering feature and I've noticed that it works fine, unless you close your document, reopen, and then try to add more lines. The program forgets that you're using bullets and if you try to add a bullet again in the same text area box it indents all of the following lines after the first one.

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    jessenicoli
    jessenicoliAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 13, 2025

    Okay, so I think I figured out what Illustrator is actually doing though I don't understand why it's coded this way. When you use the bullet feature it acts as it's own thing. The bullet is not able to be selected. It acts outside of what would be live text. The indentation is controlled by the Bullet and Numbering dialogue. However, if you close out of your document and then reopen it, Illustrator takes that information, converts your bullet into a glyph → • and then changes the paragraph indentation settings to keep what was formatted. The bullet becomes live text and is no longer controlled by the Bullet and Numbering dialogue. What are the chances Adobe wants to comment on this and explain why this half-baked feature was added?

    Anubhav M
    Community Manager
    Anubhav MCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 13, 2025

    Hello @jessenicoli,

    Thanks for sharing your observations! When you use the Bullets and Numbering feature and close/reopen the file, you should still be able to add more bullets or numbers to the same text box by simply hitting Enter, as long as the bullets or numbers haven’t been converted to regular text.

    If the bullets have been converted to text (as you mentioned with the bullet turning into a glyph), they lose their connection to the Bullets and Numbering dialogue. This could happen due to specific workflows or saving formats that don’t fully preserve dynamic properties. To ensure the feature remains editable, try these steps:
    1. Save the file in .AI format, which fully supports Illustrator’s features.
    2. Avoid converting text to outlines or exporting to formats like PDF unless necessary.

    Let us know if this helps clarify things!

    Anubhav

    jessenicoli
    jessenicoliAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 13, 2025

    1. The file is saved in .AI format.

    2. The text was not converted to outlines nor was it exported.

    This is purely something happening in the UI and seems like it was intended.

    This could happen due to specific workflows or saving formats that don’t fully preserve dynamic properties. > This is happening with a normal workflow and is a bug in the software.

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