end of support type 1 fonts

[designer1955]

I have read all replies on this topic but one matter stays unaddressed. I have a massive archive of books of about 30 years. What will happen to text if type 1 fonts are replaced by openfonts. Will text reflow? Because it ill be a massive pain to check thousands of pages to see if text has reflown. I can imagine it will reflow because of added glyphs, changed kerning etc. Anyone any idea? Thanks in advance!

[Randy Hagan]

This is a user-to-user forum, and while Adobe staffers may occasionally review these, most all the folks here can't answer for Adobe Systems. In short, We can't answer for them; we can only offer help for the options you have to consider.

I appreciate your anger, honestly. And if you go through the various answers provided here, you may find a course of action that works for you. But nobody here can speak for Adobe Systems.

It's what we've got, and I hope this forum can help you past the problem.

Randy

[Creamer Training]

You have a few choices:

• Stay with versions of Adobe software that supports Type 1 fonts. Make sure you don't update the OS either--support will be dropped there too.
• Switch to OpenType versions of the same font. Some fonts may be available from Adobe with the CC subscription, other may have to be purchased. Other foundries may offer a discount from old licenses.
• Switch to a similar OT font. 
• Convert your T1 fonts if original license allows it.

Not speaking for Adobe--most of us are just users. Just giving my opinion as to the logical options.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Just noting that I am finding this change frustrating in that I am working on a system that has never had T1 fonts installed, yet I have documents that have font specs that stubbornly ID as T1 even though I've done everything to remap them to OTF. Sometimes it's split: I have styles using Stone Sans Semibold that are happy, and others that will not "convert" even when the text is cleared and re-styled.

I don't object to T1 fonts going away, but the software seems to.

[rob day]

Seems like the InDesign Find/Replace Font dialog is ambiguous in its terminology. Here’s the default ID font Myriad Pro, which is listed as OpenType Type 1 by Find/Replace Font. While FontAgent font manager lists it and all of my OpenType fonts as OpenType with PostScript outline: