My printer always demand that I convert my fonts to outlines. Plus, moderators at the Adobe forum have told me to convert to outline if I want to lock in my designs. I had issues before, because Adobe frequently drops fonts from the cloud. Please, add this quickly and also let us know a workaround in the meantime.

Really, this is so basic and I cant believe we need to ask for a feature request here. Also, why is this not considered a bug? Both in the forums and here, we are told this is by design? How can disappearing bullets be by design?

Is this some bad joke?

Will this ever be resolved? I'm having this issue now. I really don't want house Illustrator to create text heavy leaflets...

Can't believe this is still an issue! I've just used alternating shading on ~60 lines of text, clicked convert to outlines and the shading disappears. Surely I don't have to add the shading to every other line manually?!

so when will this be sorted / fixed..if ever? The "you don't have to outline text" doesn't cut it when you're a wayfinding designer

any news on whether this has been reviewed and planned for inclusion? it really is dangerous nonsensical the way outlines currently drop paragraph rules, bullets, etc.

I also just had this problem. Our sign printer REQUIRES that all text be converted to outlines. This could lose me my job.

Also having trouble with this!

I have the same issue. Im making a magazine, with lots of quotes where there are under and upperlines. When I set it to outlines they disappear. Same with text field colors in some cases.

I am astonished this is STILL HAPPENING. Hello Adobe?! WAKE UP! FIX THIS! It's 2020!!!!!
Keep charging us hundreds, adding useless irritating features and never fix one of the most fundamental bugs?! I am floored.

Hi Ravi. Further to my last message, in Illustrator if text is underlined, when it is outlined the underline is maintained. Given that Illustrator and InDesign are both Adobe products, it seems odd that one programme should have the feature and the other doesn't. Cheers Dave

Ravi. We have just come across this issue and started to look into why underlines / bullets disappear when text is outlined and found this thread. Good to see it's something you're going to look at (March 2018 above). I wondered if there had been any movement on this issue in the last 18 months? Cheers Dave

Paragraph rules are also not working as intended. These should not disappear when text is outlined.

Also, it would be very handy to have an option/switch to outline all text in the document automatically when exporting to PDF or EPS file. Please make it happen. Thank you.

Ravi. It just caught my attention. The post you sent me the link for is from 2008. Wow!!! You know about this problem since 2008 and you did nothing to fix it. 10 whole years. I am very disappointed.

This does not solve the problem. If you open the link and read the thread you will see that it is only a workaround and it is not a bullet proof solution. I am paying for the software and I expect it to work as intended. I should just select Create Outlines and all text, including bullets, glyphs, underlines, etc. in the whole document should be convert to outlines. NO WORKAROUNDS. This is unacceptable. There could be many reasons why we need to convert text to outlines and this is nobody's business to comment on it like David Blatner did in his post. For example a PDF file exported from InDesign and imported to CorelDraw can create issues with text if not converted to outlines. The bottom line is that the Create Outlines functionality does not work properly and it needs to be fixed. In my case the artwork was already approved by the client, and I was exporting it for production. If I did not catch those missing bullets, tell me who would pick up the bill for the product that would be printed and rejected by the client. Maybe I should send that bill to Adobe, as this is Adobe's responsibility to provide us bug free product. We depend on it and we pay great deal of money for it. So, please Adobe, before you introduce any new features fix bugs and glitches first. It costs us, designers, great deal of time to figure out the workarounds. Just so you know.
THIS CASE IS NOT RESOLVED.

Bullets disappear when a copy associated with it gets converted to outlines. They just vanish. It does not matter if you use a keyboard shortcut or go to menu and select Create Outlines. It does not matter if the Bulleted List or Numbered List is used. Obviously the expected result would be to have the bullets in place after the conversion. I am using the current version of InDesign v.13.0.1 x64
I was stunt when I discovered what happens to the bullets. I need this to be fixed asap as I have a project I need to finish.

Most of all our printers as for outlined text. So this is still very much and issue when it comes to outlining fonts.

Hi,
Thanks for pointing out that behaviour. But this is a designed behaviour. Underline is a property of text and is applied on text. When you select text and convert it to outlines... it no longer remains text but turns to an image. It becomes raterized.
At the same time, please readhttps://indesignsecrets.com/outlining-fonts-is-it-necessary.php that explains nicely why you dont need to convert text to outline while providing it to printer...

-Aman