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MikeA-m10
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August 12, 2020
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How to turn off automatic font activation

  • August 12, 2020
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A week or so ago I accidentally clicked a button to allow Indesign (or Adobe?) to automatically activate fonts that are missing from a document. I can't find where to turn this feature off.

Cheers, Mike

      Correct answer meh67

      Did cleaning the cache help at all? We have exactly the same isuse. Fonts opened in ConnectFonts are overridden by the CC Adobe fonts. Which can't be packaged so we cannot submit them to Veeva!


      No, what ended up working was completely deleted Interstate from the list in Adobe Cloud Fonts rather than just making it inactive. Then restarting everything and it seemed to work then.

      It seemed to be a bug with Adobe Cloud Fonts wanting to use their version of the font even with auto-activation unchecked - so removing it from my Adobe Type list completely made it work. At least, thats what I think made it work. I thought I had DELETED it before, but I think I just inactivated it.

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      meh67
      meh67
      Inspiring
      March 18, 2025

      UGH!!! I have this problem as well. In Indesign I do have the "Auto-active adobe fonts" Turned OFF - but Adobe fonts STILL keeps loading THEIR version of Interstate (which sux), instead of the one I bought for good money because it has a monospace version of the font (Tabular Lining) in OpenType features so my tables line up. Why have a button in Indesign Preferences to NOT auto-load the Adobe fonts and have it not work??? 
      I literally have to go into Adobe Fonts, find Interstate that it KEEPS LOADING even while working on the same file - and turn it off over and over and over...
      Adobe seems to keep making "improvements" that make me less productive.

      David__B
      Adobe Employee
      David__B
      Adobe Employee
      March 18, 2025

      Hi @meh67

      Thanks for reporting the issue. I've reached out to our developers. I'll provide an update when I hear back.


      Thanks,
      Dave

      DavidMatos
      DavidMatos
      Inspiring
      November 18, 2022

      As if it wasn’t enough, Adobe now induces users to Save to Creative Cloud by default in Illustrator, by removing the (command+S) shortcut and forcing users to manually click the ‘On your computer’ button. Amazing, ha?

        DavidMatos
        DavidMatos
        Inspiring
        February 5, 2022

        Yet another arrogant, time consuming, productivity damaging feature from Adobe.

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          defaultdv2wmk6jgast
          Participant
          November 18, 2022

          This seems to be another nightmare Adobe has created for me. As advised above, I switched off Adobe fonts, but the InDesign Background Tasks keep trying to replace my original Proforma fonts with Adobe Proforma fonts (which do not have small caps, etc.). Also, all my Proforma Small Caps fonts do not appear in the InDesign font menu even though they are activated in FontExplorer X Pro.

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            MikeA-m10Author
            Participating Frequently
            September 10, 2020

            Finally stumbled across the location of preference for "Auto-activate Adobe Fonts". It's in preferences/File Handling.

             

              Kris Hunt
              Kris Hunt
              Legend
              November 23, 2022

              This checkbox does not exist in Photoshop 2023. What the heck, Adobe?

                HARSHIKA_VERMA
                Community Manager
                HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity Manager
                Community Manager
                August 13, 2020

                Hi Mike,

                 

                Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind disabling the button from the Creative Cloud app as shown in the screenshot below?

                 

                Let me know if that helps.

                 

                Thanks,

                Harshika

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                  MikeA-m10Author
                  Participating Frequently
                  August 18, 2020

                  Unfortunately that completely turns off Adobe Fonts. Before I had to option to activate individual fonts when needed. There was a check box next to each missing font. For prepress I need to be able to check individual fonts and make sure they match what the customer sent.

                    HARSHIKA_VERMA
                    Community Manager
                    HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity Manager
                    Community Manager
                    August 18, 2020

                    Thanks for elaborating it. Yes so now you will be able to activate the full family of font and not the individual font weight from fonts.adobe.com and search the font you want to activate. Please see the attached screenshot.

                     

                     

                    Thanks,

                    Harshika

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