Some people will flail their arms and say it’s the beginning of the end others will breathe a sigh of relief most folks will wonder what it all means. Adobe annouced today that they are adopting a cloud-only future, and the next version of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all our favorite tools, will be be available only by subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud. You might recall those memorable words from The Hitchhiker’s Guide, and they are certainly words of wisdom today. Then, later, replace your current Type 1 fonts with OpenType equivalents because there's no future in using them.Don’t panic. TL DR - Roll back to v.18.1, removing the current version of InDesign (and Creative Cloud) using the CC Cleaner Tool.
I've used FontLab's TransType utility to good effect, but it's just one of several options available to you. There are a number of utilities and services which can help with that task, again, with varying degrees of success. Once past your crisis, you can either choose to keep running v.18.1 to use your current fonts or, optionally, replace or translate your existing Postscript fonts into OpenType versions. You may find you have to first uninstall all remnants of the latest version of InDesign using Adobe's CC Cleaner Tool before you can reinstall InDesign v.18.1 and regain use of your Postscript fonts. If you find yourself caught on deadline without your Postscript fonts, you can conceivably go back to the previous version (v.18.1) and regain use of your Postscript Type 1 fonts with InDesign.
Adobe's current OpenType fonts and TrueType fonts provided by Apple and Microsoft (and countless numbers of third parties, with varying levels of quality) are still usable with the latest version of InDesign. The latest version of Adobe InDesign (v18.2.1) appears to have stopped allowing the use of Postscript Type 1 fonts.
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