Illustrator Beta fonts not showing in Indesign 2025

[careyslade]

I've created artwork in Illustrator Beta and I'm trying to put together a presentation in Indesign 2025 to send to my client for review. 

I've imported my Illustrator artboard into my Indesign document but the fonts aren't showing on the embedded link. It appears to be all the fonts, not just one specific font that's not displaying. I've never encountered this problem before and I don't have any issues with the fonts within Indesign so my only guess is that there might be a bug with Illustrator Beta. The fonts don't even display on my finder preview (in the past when using the normal Illustrator 2025 it would show up). Anyone else having this same issue? 

A quick work around would be to make a PDF of my Illustrator artwork but I don't want to have to do this every time I want to import an AI file into Indesign going forward. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Is there a reason to use the beta? Beta versions are for testing. 

Does the shipping version work?

[careyslade]

I recently switched over to the Beta version to try out some of the upcoming features that aren't available on the standard version but it would seem that Beta is still quite bug-gy. I'm probably going to uninstall it and go back to the normal version to save myself the pain of trying to problem solve this issue.

[Ton Frederiks]

You can have multiple versions installed at the same time, I would use the beta for experiments and the regular for work.

[careyslade · Accepted solution]

Thanks, I've uninstalled Beta and reverted back the original AI and the issue is resolved, must be a bug with AI Beta. Takes up too much space on my machine to have both versions installed unfortunately. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that it is working now. But not having enough free space can cause all kinds of problems, I would certainly look into that.

[Monika Gause]

How did you import your artwork into InDesign?

If you placed an AI file that has been saved PDF compatible, then fonts shouldn't be an issue.

[careyslade]

I placed it into Indesign by pressing command D (File > Place...)

In Illustrator the only place where I can see to check the document properties is to Document Setup (File > Document Setup...) where it brings up this pop up:

 

But even by toggling the export options nothing happens on the Indesign side.

It's a normal AI file, it should display perfectly in Indesign and yet it doesn't.

[Monika Gause]

So is this about checking which fonts have been used or there is no text in the file?

[careyslade]

There's no text in the imported linked file when placed in Indesign (There's text in Illustrator but you can't see it in Indesign). I uninstalled Illustrator Beta, reinstalled the original Illustrator 2025 and resaved my illustrator file and it now shows up perfectly in Indesign. Must be a bug with Illustrator Beta.