Friday, May 2, 2008

Today I was working on specifications for UI elements which requires me to use Illustrator. No worries. As I am working on a new file, all of the sudden my ability to see what text I had selected went away.

You know, when you select text and it turns white and the selection background goes black? Yes, that... well suddenly I had no way of seeing which parts of various texts I had selected. I wondered if I mistakenly did something to change some bizarre preference or not. Nope.

I restarted Illustrator, opened up my file, same problem. OS-level text selection was fine, other CS3 applications showed text selections... hmmm. I restarted OS X. Same problem.

Just before I was going to re-install Illustrator I decided to try a new document. Text selection worked! I copied the elements from my damaged (somehow) file into the new document... and selection worked still. I don't know what happened but something in that one file prevented text selection to be visible.

So that was my adventure in Illustrator for the day.

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