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Type-1 Fonts

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 28, 2024
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Why on God's earth would Adobe drop being able to use Type-1 fonts?

WOW! Really?

Any sollutions? I mean after 30 years of T1 fonts - I hope they have a solution.

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Eugene Tyson

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Hi Christopher

Lots of new devices, smartphones, tablets, computers, etc. and operating systems are dropping the use of these fonts, so it makes no sense to keep supporting a font that won't be able to be read by modern OS, web browsers, smart phones etc.

This decision was not Adobes, the entire digital market is moving away from this tech to more robust solutions.

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Christopher3440329747o5Author

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Tell that to the printing industry. Let's drop printing all together. Who needs that?

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Eugene Tyson

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You don't have to upgrade the software - you can keep an older version - I have all the way back to InDesign 2017 installed, I have 2018, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

As time moves on - from this year forward, you'll receive less and less artwork with these fonts.

And you can slowly replace fonts.

I mean, this news was revealed a few years ago in 2021

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Maybe because the tech was 30 years old. Worked with any WordStar files lately? Lotus 1-2-3? dBASE III?

There are excellent technical reasons font data formats and encoding moved on. And Adobe did (rather annoyingly) announce the sunset date for years, every time a doc with a T1 font in it was opened. "Welcome to the pah-ty, pal!" 🙂

The solution is to update all your fonts to the (also quite mature) OTF standard. You can download new ones and convert any other formats with font tools.

Peter Spier

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The solution is to update all your fonts to the (also quite mature) OTF standard. You can download new ones and convert any other formats with font tools.

By @James Gifford—NitroPress

Don't want to burst anyone's bubble here, but before blithely converting fonts to OT, check the EULA. Many, if not most, prohibit this.

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Christopher3440329747o5Author

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Everyone who has the EULA for the fonts they acquired in 1988, raise your hand. 🙂

Point well made, but Adobe is just going to have to reap the whirlwind on this product choice.

Oh and lets get rid of PANTONE colors because there is not printing industry anymore that needs them.

WOW - lets just bring back the chizzle and stone tablet.

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