Retype not allowing to edit text

[didiermazier]

Correct me if I am wrong :

When I first tried Retype feature I could edit text in an image (incorporated, not linked).

But now I am only able to identify a more or less simliar font without editing text function.

Am I missing something or did Adobe stepped back and dropped this very useful feature?

[Anshul_Saini · Accepted solution]

Hi Didier Mazier,

You’re right—the editing functionality has been removed from Retype. The tool now focuses solely on helping you identify hard-to-find fonts in images.

With Retype, you can easily identify fonts used in static text or outlined text from raster images. Once you spot a font you like, take a photo of it, import it into Illustrator, and let Retype search through over 30,000 Adobe Fonts and your local font library to find the closest match.

Hope that clears things up! Let me know if you have any more questions.

Best,

Anshul Saini

[FSOM31]

Are there any plans to reimplement the Edit function? It was incredibly useful.

[didiermazier]

Hi

Thank you for this clarification about editing tool.

Without this great tool Retype is way less useful.

There are 2 questions remaining :

Why the editing functionality was removed?

Is the editing functionality planned to be implanted again?

Thanks

D.