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Text disappears when outlined in Illustrator CC2020

Community Beginner ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

Hi, I have a problem that when outlining certain text in Illustrator 2020, the text just disappears. Am not sure if it's something with the document setup or text format. 

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Community Beginner , Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

Kind of solved it.

When created new text, and then tried to copy the style from the old text set using the Eyedropper Tool, the same thing happened. 

But when created new text set and entered manually all formating settings of the text like the old one, then went to the old corrupted text and used the Eyedropper Tool to copy the style from the new text set created to the old corrupted text. The old text becomes good again and is able to outline it fine. Which saved me time retyping all text again.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

Hi there,

 

Thanks for reaching out. I found a similar discussion on community thread https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/text-disappears-changes-color-when-outlined/td-p/10523579...

Hope it helps.

 

Regards,

Ashutosh

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Community Expert ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

I think the topic in the thread Ashutosh is referring to is a different case.

 

It appears that your type objects are just corrupt for some reason. You can see this by going to the Type menu > Show Hidden Characters or by just enterring the type objects with the text cursor and do a Select All command.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

Ya. It doesn't act right at all which is strange.

Maybe I'll have to retype all text again.

 

Thanks alot

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Community Expert ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020

Retyping is probably the only reasonable solution in this case.

 

As far as I can see, there are a lot of zero-width spaces, but also other weird and somehow illogical things which cause the corruption.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020
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Kind of solved it.

When created new text, and then tried to copy the style from the old text set using the Eyedropper Tool, the same thing happened. 

But when created new text set and entered manually all formating settings of the text like the old one, then went to the old corrupted text and used the Eyedropper Tool to copy the style from the new text set created to the old corrupted text. The old text becomes good again and is able to outline it fine. Which saved me time retyping all text again.
Thanks a lot @Kurt_Gold your help so appreciated.

 

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