WTF Adobe? My fonts no longer work?

[ButchVA]

I "upgraded" to AI 2024 today, and half of my fonts are gone.  Still in my system (Mac OS Sonoma), just not availalbe in AI.  I have fonts that were custom made for me years (decades) ago that nobody else in the world has that I *have* to have.  So apparently AI no longer supports PostScript fonts?  Thanks a lot Adobe.  You freaking INVENTED PostScript, and I've been using these fonts just fine since the 1990s.  Now suddenly if I want to use the latest version of AI, I'm out of luck?

In addition to running an extortion scheme requiring me to subscribe to get the software, now you're telling me I can't use it the way I need to use it.

I'm ***NOT*** happy right now.

[Monika Gause]

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@tlmurray23  schrieb:

you should go with a vector (depending on the graphic, of course).

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Nobody would contradict.

But if you point is to convert all EPS files to SVG or EMF using some sort of algorithm, then that is still a bad move.

[Jimmy34980859nhoe]

Same thing happened to people at my company and I just don't understand why Adobe would update new options that were not chosen about reading font.  

We can see the different fonts, but after combining files it prints the copies with wingding-like boxes that only read a few letters and replace the rest with rectangles.

[Joanne36159726f5ut]

I'm retire but work on the occasional logo. It's been a few months since I've touched Illustrator but started on a new logo today and saw a shitload of my reliable fonts gone. I tried to find some to download from Adobe and not there. And their search feature is horrible. And I never saw a peep about this either. I feel your pain. 

[default0yzy2igg8sfe]

ANY real art director has an archive of their favorite fonts from REAL foundries. Assets we invested in and used for many years. Unique to us. Now Adobe is cornering the market and eliminating all fonts that they are not supporting or you are buying. UTTER RUBBISH. Thanks Adobe, moving everyone to the design for dummies Epress and throwing away our years of typographical prowess just so everyone can design. Does anyone have a solution as to how to load older fonts and use them in the current Creative Cloud?

[Ton Frederiks]

You can have multiple versions of Illustrator installed.

I Installed an older version of Illustrator: 2023 (27.0) and that still has support for Type 1 fonts.

In the Creative Cloud app select Apps > All Apps > Illustrator > click the 3 dots …  next to the Open button >  click Other Versions and select 27.0

This version download will disappear with the announcement of the 2025 version (only 2 versions will be supported), but the version will work as long as your OS supports it.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

I'm pretty sure CC2022 was the last to support Type 1. If CC2023 did, it was early on. v27.9 certainly does not.

[Ton Frederiks]

That is correct, only 27.0 supports Type 1 fonts. Any update after that does not.

[Monika Gause]

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@default0yzy2igg8sfe  schrieb:

eliminating all fonts that they are not supporting or you are buying.

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Any real art director sees the advantages of OpenType fonts.

But apart from that if you have the according rights granted by the Terms of Use, then you can convert fonts using TransType (commercial product). You could probably also do that using FontForge, which is free.

[Bobby Henderson]

Now Adobe is cornering the market and eliminating all fonts that they are not supporting or you are buying. UTTER RUBBISH.

What type foundry still sells fonts in Postscript Type 1 format? The old T1 format has been obsolecent for over 20 years. The format is severely limited compared to OpenType; Postscript fonts can't have more than 256 glyphs. Today it's common for OpenType fonts to have severel hundred or even a couple thousand or more glyphs.

As for the claim Adobe is cornering the market, the truth is actually quite different if you're talking about the type market. If any company could be accused of trying to monopolize the type industry Monotype would fit that description far more than Adobe. Monotype has acquired many of the biggest or most important type foundries over the past 20+ years. Monotype also bought out the most popular online fonts stores (MyFonts, Fonts.com, FontShop). Monotype also has its own subscription fonts service, which appears to carry a great deal more type families than what Adobe Fonts offers. Monotype has grown so big that some independent type designers and type foundries have removed their fonts from Monotype's font stores.

It's not accurate to call Monotype a monopoly, but the company has quite a stranglehold of the overall type market. A great deal of the most popular typefaces of all time are now owned by Monotype.