Vector Smart Object issues involving text

Question

For the last few months, I have been having issues with Photoshop and Vector Smart Objects – noticably ones that have live text.

When I place text as a smart object into PS from Illustrator, it appears fine. If I then open the smart object in illustrator and edit and save, the image looks completely different in PS, compared what it actually does in Illustrator. It mainly offsets the text or crops it. There is no consistent effect, it differs each time.

It only seems to be an issue with live text. If I outline that text, it will correct itself and look how it should.

I believe the issue is more with illustrator, and I have had the issue using creative cloud 2025 and 2026.

Has anyone else had similar issues and found a way around it?

Thanks

Dan

Astrick · Answer

I think I have the same issue. PS 2025 here (my computer cannot update further, unfortunately).
Basically I edit a vector smart object in Illustrator and when it updates in PS some elements are totally off, in a random way. Almost nothing is in the position it should stay.
Quick fix was to move (in AI) the elements that are off a little bit and then move it back, than save.
This seemed to bring them back at their original position.
Not always, though. Some times I had to simply paste the whole artwork back into the PS file.
Notice: I didn’t have any text object in my artwork.
I tried to deactivate GPU, didn’t work.
I reset the preferences and that seemed to work, for now.

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