InDesign 2025 / v20.0: »background task« tries to activate font all the time
Working with the font Minion Pro InDesign 2025 wants to activate the font in the background (shown in the background tasks panel) although it IS activated.
Closing the document does not bother InDesign. It still wants to activate the font (see screenshot 2).
Quit & Restart helps, but it should work correctly without it.
Mac
Sonoma 14.7
M3 processor
Rainer Klute
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Rachael C
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On a Mac system, there are also reports that this can happen if a font that is activated on creative cloud is also installed locally on your OS.
Check your Mac / fonts folder to see if you have the same font that is attempting to sync in the background. Reportedly, deleting the local font file addresses the problem. Just check to make sure it's not a system required font first.
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Alan Gilbertson
commented
When this problem first showed up a couple of years ago, the workaround was to uncheck "Auto-activate Adobe Fonts" in Preferences. Give that a try and see if it fixes the issue.