Issue
Several reports have identified an issue in which installed fonts in Universal Type Client or installed directly within the Operating systems are not recognized by InDesign version 17.2. These fonts will not activate properly or will show as missing from the project/document within version 17.2 of InDesign.
Solution
Adobe has released InDesign version 17.2.1 which addresses this issue.
Please update to version 17.2.1 or later using Creative Cloud Desktop application.
If updating InDesign does not work immediately, please try the following:
Step 1) Quit InDesign
Step 2) Delete the following:
macOS:
~/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign
Windows:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign
Step 3) Relaunch InDesign
ALTERNATE/TEMPORARY SOLUTION
We are asking users experiencing this issue to consider downgrading to InDesign 17.0 or 17.0.1 in order to use the Extensis auto-activation plug-ins.
Adobe is aware and is working on an upcoming release to address these issues.
If you are still encountering issues after using the temporary solution above, please contact our Support Team using the link below:
https://help.extensis.com/hc/en-us/requests/new