Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[khzimmer at posteo.de]

Actually it turned out there is NO urgent need for finding a solution. 
:)

Just found this advise, given in another reply in this thread:

Am 21.09.2022 11:41 schrieb Volker RW Schaa:
> 
> You surely haven't read your TUGboat vol. 42(!), no. 1, 2021,
> page 19 in Typographers' Inn by Peter Flynn.

That article shows there are no near or middle term problems
to be expected for Type 1 fonts that embedded(!) in the PFDs.

So there is no need to find a solution by the end of this year. :)

Cheers
Karl-Heinz


TUGboat vol. 42(!), no. 1, 2021, page 19 in Typographers' Inn by Peter 
Flynn

Am 21.09.2022 11:13 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
> Am 21.09.2022 10:58 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
>> The problem is that pdflatex can't use them as it can't subset them.
>> E.g.
>> 
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \pdfmapline{=cmr12 cm < lmroman12-regular.otf}
>> \begin{document}
>> abc
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> will give a fatal error:
>> 
>> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file lmroman12-regular.otf): OTF
>> fonts must be included entirely
> 
> Is there any chance to change this in the near future, so
> that OTF fonts could be included partially, too?
> 
> Or are there difficult technicel reasons why that's not possible?
> 
> If it /could/ be done, but is a matter of available people who
> have time to do it, I might be able to contribute as a
> programmer, if that helps?
> 
> Cheers
> Karl-Heinz