Batch converting soon-to-be-unsupported Type 1 fonts?

[egypturnash]

Today I started digging into a project that's been idle for the past year or so and got a warning that "Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported starting January 2023. Your document contains Type 1 fonts." Guess I'm glad I'm slow on updating Illustrator.

Asking Font Book to search my Mac's fonts by kind revealed that 218 of the 618 fonts on my computer are Type 1. Mostly crazy free novelty fonts that I use for sound effects in my comics.

What have people been using to convert their Type 1 fonts to a newer format? Have you found a solution that you can just point at a fonts directory and let loose, or does it require a human to make some choices for every font? What format have you been choosing? Most discussions I can find on the Adobe forums just acknowledging the existance of these programs, but never mention any. And there's no guidance on which format is best.

So far I have found:

•  Fontlab's TransType - $100, might need human intervention for every font? https://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/

•

the opensource program Font Forge, and an AskDifferent answer that suggests a bash script to autoconvert: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/33111/is-there-macos-software-to-convert-postscript-type-1...

• ...and a bunch of web pages that claim to convert fonts and that I have no interest in trying to upload 218 fonts to one at a time.

What's worked for you?

[Met1]

I don't have any, I phased mine out years ago as OT is so much better for cross platform work, too many issues with type1 versions on Mac and PC, but anyway, search the forum, this was just asked recently and TransTYPE seemed to be the winner...

[Bobby Henderson · Accepted solution]

TransType 4 will let you convert entire folders of fonts from Postscript Type 1 to other font formats, including OTF PS. It will also do conversions one font file at a time too. There is a link to the user's manual on the FontLab Ltd web site page for TransType. The manual does a pretty good job showing how the application works.
https://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/