Reply To: Text vanishes in PDF or JPEG

Well, you don’t have to outline text to stretch it, resize it, etc. You can even stroke editable text and set the fill to None color.

But in this case, I think there’s simply something wrong with that object. I don’t know what it is — maybe some kind of corruption — but you absolutely should be able to convert it to outlines, apply a color, and have it work.

If you delete the old one, and put a NEW text frame with editable text over it, and set it to yellow… and then convert it to outlines (if you want)… does it work now?