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jaya krishnan
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April 5, 2022
Question

Adobe Distiller can support Type 1 font

  • April 5, 2022
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Adobe will stop the support for Type 1 fonts in January 2023

 

Will Acrobat Distiller should be affected?

 

We are using type1 fonts in other typeset which creates postscript that contains Type 1 fonts.

 

On using Acrobat Distiller we are creating PDF file from the PostScript file?

 

If the PDF embedded with Type1 font or unembedded.

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Dr.Adam
Inspiring
March 15, 2023

We need Adobe to reply here and confirm that!

If Distiller can not support Font Type-1 (Which made by Adobe as first Scalable font) ,  it will be disaster ! and none of the EPS/Archive over the last 40 yeaqrs can be converted to PDF using distiller !!

Still many Apply Apps , program are using hertiage Type-1 , specially for non English fonts.

these are 2 examples of the negative side of that decsion.

 

Adam 

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Test Screen Name
Legend
March 15, 2023

I have never seen any Adobe technical experts (of this level) in this forum. I suspect Adobe have not even considered the point, but who knows. Distiller, as a PostScript interpreter, is required to be able to read type 1 fonts in the input stream, but there is a question over whether it can read them from the system. What happens if Microsoft stops them working in the system?

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Test Screen Name
Legend
April 5, 2022

PostScript will continue to have type 1 support (because it does not and never will have OpenType support), so Distiller will still need to read that. So far as I can see. 

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