Automatic CC font activation in Adobe apps like like InDesign and Illustrator appears to be stopping automatic activation of some installed fonts by Extensis Suitcase Fusion on Windows.
When opening (Illustrator or InDesign) the missing fonts dialog shows some CC fonts as missing with a checkbox next to them for auto-activation. These fonts are cloud-based duplicates of some fonts I already have installed on my system (eg. Minion Pro which was installed years ago by CS). So I leave them unchecked so that the local version can be activated.
Usually if I leave the checkboxes unchecked Suitcase will activate the installed fonts.
But with some fonts that are available in CC fonts (like Minion), if I don't check the auto-activate boxes then they are not activated at all (by Suitcase) even though they are already installed.
Possibly CC sees them as an old version and wants to update them, but if that's the case I'm happy, in fact prefer to use the existing installed version. So I would rather it didn't, thanks all the same.
So I would rather not let Adobe activate them from the cloud, I prefer to use the local version when I can. Strange? There are reasons.
I find that when I turn off CC fonts altogether the local fonts are activated and everything works properly, which is what I have decided to do for the time being. But of course it would be good to have access to other CC fonts.
So I'm wondering if there is some way to get CC to ignore individual fonts rather than automatically activating them? (That's what I thought the checkboxes were for) Or just completely disable automatic activation options while keeping CC fonts enabled?
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