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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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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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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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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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I checked more on the subject and found Adobe preciesely mentioned they will stop support in 4 x products
PhotoShop , AI ,IDesign, digital audio and video
So Acrobat , Distiller should be out of this boycut to Type 1
Adam