Activated Fonts not installing onto PC

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December 27, 2022
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We have a number of Windows 10 PCs, as of 12/13/2022 we noticed that activating fonts doesn't install them to the the OS, so they aren't available in other applications. I'm in the IT department, so I'm working to get a license assigned to our IT account, but in the meantime I was wondering if anyone else has seen an issue with this lately? I'll return to this thread with more information once I pry the funds from management to obtain the additional license.

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Kevin Stohlmeyer

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How are you activating the fonts? Through fonts.adobe.com or ?

If you are using Adobe fonts, each individual user needs to activate through their individual account AND if you have enterprise portal management the Admin needs to allow file syncing for them to show on the licensed account/machine locally.

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JamesA-FABAuthor

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Each individual is activating the fonts for their own accounts. I'll check for the Admin setting. Did anything change for this feature recently? We don't mess around in our admin management, so we wouldn't have disabled this feature. The downloading of fonts to the local PC worked prior to 12/13/2022.

I also reviewed the following document, and it didn't resolve the issue.

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-font-activation.html

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JamesA-FABAuthor

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@JamesA-FAB https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/enable-disable-services.html

Start with making sure Fonts is enabled in the product profile.

If sync is disabled it could also mean your storage is not setup for the users as well.

If enabling Fonts as a service does not resolve, I would recommend filing a support ticket through your Admin console. They can directly access and resolve the issue for your company specifically.

Thank you for all your help so far. Its been a busy week with other emergencies, but I'm back to this issue.

I've had time to compare two of the PCs.

I log into both PCs as the local admin. Log into Creative Cloud with an account that has a license. Illustrator is installed at version 27.1.1. I updated both Creative Cloud installations to 5.9.1.377. When I click the Cloud icon they both display a green check mark, file syncing up to date message.

I click on the Fonts icon, and deactivate and reactivate a font. That font still doesn't show up in the font list within Illustrator on one PC, but does on the other. The PCs aren't identical, but they were both based on the same base image, but that was years ago. Each user has their own virtual desktop.

The Creative Cloud shows that the font is activated, but for some reason on some of the PCs the font isn't making it over to the other apps.

I don't know if this is related, but we are also working on removing EOL software. one of those applications is the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2012. We have found that when we remove the C++ software (we have the 2015-2022 version installed) we notice it returns whenever Adobe conducts an update. I hadn't known they were working to remove the software from these PCs until today. They've stopped doing that, and I've confirmed that both the working and non-working systems have the software installed.

Is there any log error that I can see between the Creative Cloud sync client, and the various Applications, as it pertains to the installation/activation of the fonts?

Thank you again

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