Some text disappears when upgrading to Illustrator 2023

Question

I don't know if anyone else has had this issue: I have a file where I have copied and pasted a table with text from Indesign (it's just easier to set up a complicated table in Indesign!) The file was fine until I upgraded and worked on it in Illustrator 2023, when I next opened the file all the text from the table had disappeared, the anchor points for the text were still there but no text, hidden or otherwise. The font I used was installed and open as other text in that same font and weight were visible.

I tried copying and pasting the text back in from Indesign but when I tried to move the pasted selection Illustrator crashes.

After trying some other things I decided to open the same file in Illustrator 2022 and hey presto the text was back! So I am assuming this is some sort of glitch in the new version of Illustrator?

File in Illustrator 2022:

Same file in Illustrator 2023

I guess I just keep working in the old version of Illustrator until it's fixed?

I am working on an 3.5 GHz i7 imac running OS 10.15.7

Many thanks!

Feelgood56 · Accepted Answer

Hi All,Just to add to this post that the issue has been resolved with the latest Illustrator update (27.01)

Doug A Roberts · Answer

I tried the following steps:

1. Create table in InDesign

2. Copy paste 3x to Illustrator 26.5 (once by selecting all cells, once selecting the table as a text object, once selecting the frame containing table)

3. Save file

4. Open in AI 27

5. Repeat steps 2-4 starting a new file in AI 27

Both files look normal. There was a difference when copy & pasting the frame (AI 26.5 pastes it as PDF info and outlines some text, AI 27 pastes it as point text), but nothing disappeared.

Does it happen in a new file? Can you share a demo file if so?

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