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  1. Illustrator 30.3 Font Handling Issue

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    Need More Info  ·  4 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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    It appears that 30.3 only loads fonts that are 'available'. On macOS fonts can be provided on demand by other apps.

    Previously when a document was opened all used fonts in that document were loaded by Illustrator. This allowed other apps to provide fonts that were not already available, in order to display them in the document. So missing fonts were provided and displayed correctly.

    In 30.3 that doesn't happen: missing fonts are not 'loaded', therefore they cannot be provided by other apps. I suspect there is some new check such as 'if font is available then load font'.

    This may also affect 'Document-support fonts'. These are macOS system fonts that do not appear 'available' for new documents (users cannot select them). However if an existing document tries to load such a font the system automatically provides it for that document. So existing documents will render the font correctly, because the missing font is loaded and automatically provided by the system.

    If someone on the Adobe team wants more info please feel free to reach out.