Times New Roman TTF replaced with OTF in InDesign 21.0, causing missing font errors

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October 30, 2025
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All my books (several hundred) are formatted using the Times New Roman TTF font. The new version of InDesign 21.0 changes that to Times New Roman OTF.
Fortunately, version 20.0 is still installed. I know from experience that strange things can happen in updates.. However, the problem with the latest update has also been introduced in that version.
OTF is only available with a licence, which I do not have.
I would appreciate some help.
Cor van Wijgerden

Performance

Correct answer Abhishek Rao

Hi everyone,

Thank you all again for your patience while the team investigated this issue. I wanted to share that the fix for this issue is now available in the InDesign PreRelease build v21.4.0.068 and above. This is the same issue being tracked in the following UserVoice report:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180/suggestions/50715731

Could you please install/update to the latest InDesign PreRelease build from Creative Cloud under the “Prerelease” category and check whether the issue is now resolved on your end?

If you do not currently have access to the InDesign PreRelease builds, you can apply here:
https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C6DFA254-C40C-4EEB-8F6D-F4AEDA2E6171

Once updated, please test your affected documents and let us know your observations. If you still encounter the issue, please feel free to share the details here or reach out to sharewithID@adobe.com.

Thanks again for all your patience and support.

Abhishek

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Alostera

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Following the computer updating, I opened InDesign and a file I had been working on. All of the text in TR 12 pt reg and ital is not highlighted in a peach color--12 pt BF, 12 pt reg hypertext, and other TR font sizes plus all other fonts are unaffected. Example attached. Perhaps related (although this happens practically every time I open a file in InDesign) is the fact that it cannot find my fonts...TR is perhaps the most commonly-used of all. Any eye deer how to get rid of the highlighting? What's with the missing fonts? I haven't been moving stuff around myself.

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Alostera

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Sorry, I meant "...is NOW highlighted," not "is not highlighted"

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