How do I force text without spaces to show in text field?

kphotopage, good evening.

You may be able to reproduce the (possible) issue in this case.

As indicated by Ton, we have a massive global issue that disallows to type single words in Illustrator that consist of more than about 6000 characters. Something that is absolutely common in almost all languages worldwide.

So, you may just create a type object in Illustrator and type a beautiful word like this one (click on the link):

Llanfair

Then copy that word and paste it about 107 or 120 times, right at the end of the first word without any space character. The beautiful composition will disappear because Illustrator does not support words with more than about 6000 characters, although almost all application users would like to to that constantly.

Astounding behaviour.

Now this is really peaking my interest here.

Here I am using OP text.

I copied and pasted into an Area Text Box.

Duplicated, used Find/Replace to rid the spaces.

Copied and pasted into a new text box.

Resized.

I simply can not duplicate any problems OP is having.

All working as expected.

I’m using:

MacOS Catalina, version 10.15.6

Illustrator 2020, version 24.3.0

K

If the limit is indeed the main issue in this case, you may just insert a space at the end of about 6000 characters and set its horizontal scaling to 1 %. Or use appropriate kerning to make the space invisible.

I remember that there is a limit to the amount of characters in a single word (cannot find the exact amount).

You may need to split up the text.

Besnard, Hi.

If I understand you correctly, you want text with no spaces, no paragraph returns, force line breaks where you want them. Then copy and paste into perhaps a new document or  different size text box.

Yes/No???

I’ll try to cover all the basics in hopes you can resolve whatever issues you are having.

Here I’m using the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb as text.

Type>Show Hidden Characters

Type>Area Text (Not point Text)

Paragraph, uncheck Hyphenate

To Rid all spaces and all Paragraph Returns, I used Edit>Find and Replace.

To break your characters where you want them, use Type>Insert Break Character.

Select All, Copy and Paste into a new Area Text Box.

Resize bounding box as desired.

K

Maybe try and apply the language setting Arabic to it in the Character panel?

Can you show your initial text and the arrangement you are looking for?

A sketch that shows a "before" and "after" state.