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marianm52683389
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September 16, 2025
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fonts management in illustrator 29.8.1 doesnt work anymore.

  • September 16, 2025
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Im using nexusfonts as font manager, im working for tens different brands and i dont want to install hundres of fonts so i activate/deactivate fonts to suits my specific needs. Since this last version of illustrator, when i was selecting a different font collection from nexusfont, illustrator saw the new activated fonts and updated them in the documents. Now it doesn't do this anymore and I have to close and reopen illustrator with the collection activated in nexusfont everytime im switchig between different clients documents. It's very annoying and I would like to know if there is a solution for this. Thanks! 🙂

    Correct answer d1malien

    This bug has been fixed in Adobe Illustrator v.30. Activating/deactivating fonts on the fly using font managers in Adobe Photoshop v.27 also works. Please check it out.

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    avalent
    Known Participant
    October 1, 2025

    +1, same behavior observed with Fontbase. I know Adobe teams for various apps are silo'd off with barbed wire, but if the Illustrator people could dig a tunnel to Photoshop or InDesign people, they would see a working example of activated fonts showing up without restarting the app.

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    Lithografiki
    Participating Frequently
    September 30, 2025

    Same problem with extensis connect

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    Lithografiki
    Participating Frequently
    September 30, 2025

    Same problem with extensisn connect. 

     

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    zeynepdr
    Participant
    September 30, 2025

    Hello,
    Same issue same problem makes me crazy. Finally i've found to install beta version to work easily like before. I didn't want to go back to older versions. That helped me out. 

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    rossca41683372
    Participant
    September 29, 2025

    The fonts won't load in Illustrator 29.8.1. I am using Main Type 12 and it doing the same thing for me. I have to quit and restart to get the newly added active fonts to load.

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    retoid
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2025

    Please upvote the main post.

    MyChicCrafts
    MyChicCrafts
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2025

    Same issue! MainType font manager has been updated and I still must close Illustrator for it to recognize newly installed fonts. This is extremely frustrating and time consuming!!

     

      David Sutphin
      David Sutphin
      Participating Frequently
      September 24, 2025

      I'm having the same issue (just started happening), using Extensis Connect and Illustrator (both current versions) on Windows 11 Home. Seems abundantly apparent that this is a problem on Adobe's end given all the different font management programs having the same type issues.

        d1malien
        d1malien
        Inspiring
        September 24, 2025

        Please vote, David. Maybe we'll have a chance to get Adobe to fix this issue in Illustrator.

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          lomaxd
          Inspiring
          September 23, 2025

          Fonts no longer show as active in Illustrator when turned on in Extensis Connect. I worked through a whole session with their tech folks and they determined it was Illustrator (and then they washed their hands of the problem). The Connect activated fonts show up for use in Photoshop, just not Illustrator. The computer is running Windows 11, system OS and all apps are up to date, no Type 1 fonts on the machine, reloaded both apps, and deleted all the fonts from the Connect library in case there was a corrupt font file. I even went into Local Group Policy Editor and shut off Untrusted Font Blocking. That allowed the first activated font to show up, but no subsequent ones would work. 

           

          Anyone run into a similar situation where your font manager stopped interacting with Illustrator?

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            lomaxd
            Inspiring
            September 24, 2025

            I installed FontBase as a test of sorts. It did the same thing. First font will activate and subsequent ones do not. 

            AlanGilbertson
            Community Expert
            AlanGilbertsonCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            September 25, 2025

            Hello @lomaxd,

            I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Kindly allow me some time to check this with the team.

            Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.
            Anubhav


            @Anubhav M Just to reinforce what Iomaxd is reporting, I tested this on my own system (Windows 11 Pro, 24H2) and the problem exists only in Illustrator. Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Stager, etc., all see activated fonts. The issue is also present in the current beta (30.0.72).

            d1malien
            d1malien
            Inspiring
            September 18, 2025

            I have the same problem using font manager. Temporary automatic activation of fonts in Illustrator 29.8.1 using Font Expert has not working in this version. Now you need to restart Illustrator for fonts to be activated. It has also been noticed that not all fonts from a font family are loaded (doesn't matter OTF, TTF), for example, the Bold weight may not load. In Illustrator versions 29.7.1, 29.6.1, 29.6, ...., on-the-fly font activation works without any problems, but these versions have other bugs and are not suitable for me. 

            Please do not suggest reinstalling, resetting settings, updating, etc. I would not be writing this here if I had not tried it.

            I'm tired of being an Adobe software QA tester instead of my current job.

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