Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[Zdenek Wagner]

st 21. 9. 2022 v 17:41 odesílatel Paulo Ney de Souza
<pauloney at gmail.com> napsal:
>
> > > 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.
>
Send the list of printing houses which use OpenSource for
phototypesetters, digital printers, digital plotters and other
machines used for printing books, journals, posters, leaflets in large
scale (1000+ pieces) etc.

> Paulo Ney
>

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml


>
> 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