Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

> > Adobe announced (very quietly) a few weeks ago that they will phase out
> > Type 1 fonts from all PDF tools, this January 2023, including Adobe
Reader:
>
> Who cares?

I DO!

> I am far less concerned about some commercial tool I don't plan to use
> nor have used.
>
> Maybe that is a good reason for many users to ditch these rubbish
> products and move to better open source alternatives?
> Best
> Norbert

Please send the list of Open Source tools you can use to:

Check the Color Model(s) of a PDF file.
Change/Embed a color profile on a PDF.

Paulo Ney


On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 1:09 AM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Adobe announced (very quietly) a few weeks ago that they will phase out
> Type 1 fonts from all PDF tools, this January 2023, including Adobe Reader:
>
>
> https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html
>
> It is expected that files will be read, but no annotations of PDF
> pre-press will work.
>
> There are more than 7K Type1 files in TeXLive distributed over 33
> packages. The conversion with FontForge and other scripted tools is not
> very hard, and the layout as an Unicode font simplifies file support a  lot
> ... and OT itself opens the door to quite a bit of innovation.
>
> Could these authors/maintainers get a prop-up from TL managers? It is
> quite likely none of them have heard of this.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
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