Batch converting soon-to-be-unsupported Type 1 fonts?
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/
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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-font-to-ttf
• ...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?
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