text appearing outside of box and moving objects with it

[Simon5CE7]

Hello.

I've been experiencing an issue in the latest release of Adobe Illustrator (29.8.1). After creating artwork in the centre of the canvas and inlcuding text boxes I've encountered an error where the text moves outside of the box diagonally and moves the other objects with it. If I click on the text the text box is selected, but in its original position. It's only after resizing the text box that the text itself reverts back to appearing in the box. This has been an issue before, in earlier version, but this is now moving non-text objects away from their original position. I've had to correct two artworks that have had this error already. The only trigger I can think of is when the artwork is saved under a new filename after being created - for a duplicate file as an example. Please see the screenshots below for further context.

[achannell]

This keeps happening to me as well. It's super frustrating and scary because I have to redo everything, which sucks when on a tight deadline!!! Hurry up Adobe, please!

[Jim_Rick6879]

Hi @Simon5CE7,

That sounds like a known display/transform glitch that’s appeared in some recent Illustrator builds. You can try the following steps — they usually resolve the issue:

1. Reset text rendering:
   Go to Preferences → Type and disable “Type Object Glyph Snap to Baseline Grid” (if on), then restart Illustrator.

2. Turn off GPU Performance: 
   Preferences → Performance → uncheck “GPU Performance” → restart. This often stops objects and text from visually shifting.

3. Use “Save As” instead of “Save a Copy” when duplicating files — some users reported layout shifts happening only after “Save a Copy.”

4. Check for updates:
   Make sure you’re on the most recent patch of 29.8.1 or newer (Adobe usually pushes small fixes for layout issues quickly).

5. If it persists:
   Try Reset Preferences (hold Alt + Ctrl + Shift while launching Illustrator) or create a new document to see if the behavior repeats.

If it continues after these steps, it’s best to report it through “Help → Submit Bug/Feature Request” so the Illustrator team can log your file version and system details.

[danielb44161175]

Thank you! I will give these a try.

[danielb44161175]

Any one have this happen? This has happened to different files of mine randomly over the past week. No alerts, warnings, errors. One day I make a design and later in the day or the next day I open it and chaos! Thank you for taking a look.

[Mark25243738rzbp]

So relieved it's not just me and that Adobe are looking into this. I've had the same experience when creating logo designs on multiple artboards and on single artboards with things like illustrations. All fine when I save it but when I return and open the file several elements have moved to a different position. It's the worst bug I've ever experienced (in any adobe program) in over 30 years of using Adobe products. So frustrating! The solution I've found is trying to move the elements that have relocated elsewhere and then undo and they sometimes return to their original location. Also, saving as an editable pdf seems to work as other on here have said. Hoping for a fix very soon as it's upsetting my work flow!!!

[achannell]

TEMPORARY FIX (at least for me it works): In the meantime, until Adobe gets its act together, I just save my files as an .eps...I haven't had an issue since

[karens43279771]

Thank you!!

[Capvel Martain]

since it is a recent bug, I have drop back randomly to 28.6.1 version.

Latest files fully compatibles 👍🏻

I will update if it happen again with this version (on my Mac Studio M1 Max - Tahoe 26.0.1)

My team mate which has not the latest app update (28.7.1) yet, has never experience this... (on his iMac 2020 i9 - Sequoia 15.6.1)

[Timo2025]

Thanks man, Im going crazy with this topic! I just checked older verisons in my ccloud and it wont go back any further than 29. 😞 how did you get back to version 28.?

[Capvel Martain]

in the Adobe Cloud Application, go to All application.

Illustrator 30.0 is out ! wanna try ?

[Timo2025]

Thank you so much !

[Timo2025]

I tried 30.0 same issue.

[daveb18250187]

Same thing for me! Had 8 pages in 2 rows with images and text off the artboards. Had opended the job a few times, then a few minutes after closing it down, re-opened and mayhem! Random text and images on and off the artboards had dropped down by 1 page. Absolute mess now. 

Thought I'd upgrade Illustrator to the latest, 30.0, low and behold same thing. A simpler job this. At first nothing seems to have moved, however I noticed a couple of boxes on a page that shouldn't be there, clicked on them and hit delete, the text from the next page alongside it disappeared. It was an empty text box, however the text was on the next page, now showing without a text box.

Think I'm going to go back a few Illustrator versions prior to 29.8.

[ivanm77400135]

What I did was convert the text to "area type", but I had to adjust all the other objects that moved. I found this tutorial and I think it's a temporary measure while they fix the bug. I did it and haven't had the problem again, but I don't know what other things I disabled!
Fix: Navigate to Preferences > Type and disable "Type Object Glyph Snap to Baseline Grid," then restart Illustrator

[Glyn2884897027h1]

I've been having the same issue intermittently for over a month now. TBH, the amount Adobe charges, this type of issue shouldn't happen. I'll see what Affinity plan on revealing today, and that might just convince me to finally drop Adobe for good