Friday, May 2, 2008
My adventure within Illustrator CS3 today
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.
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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Juan said...“Maybe an accidental press of Command+H, which hides edges, rather than Command+G to group things?”
