Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

> Am 21.09.22 um 10:09 schrieb Paulo Ney de Souza:
>
> you know that about acrobat reader or you assume that?
>
> The announcement says "no changes to Acrobat handling Type 1" which may
> or may not include Acrobat Reader but I would have expected that it does
> and Reader is *not* affected.
>
> Frank


Frank, the text is extremely misleading. It literally says:


   *No changes are being made to Acrobat. Acrobat will continue handling PDFs*

*   in the same manner it has been for more than 20 years.*


and then goes on to describe how it will display PDFs. The problem is Acrobat

does a lot more than just DISPLAY. You can sign, annotate, collect, share ...


I am pretty sure the display will stay the same, after all PDF is now an ISO

standard, but it will be pretty nasty to loose all other operations. Open Source

does cover the display area, but it is pretty spotty on the other items.


We will suffer more on pre-press. None of the solutions posted here are able

to perform pre-press on a PDF file in any meaningful way. Pre-press is already

a problem for TeX production, it will become a larger one. To give you a simple

example -- there are NO open source tools that can determine the color space(s)

of a PDF file -- ImageMagick says it does and makes a mess out of it.

     For most production needs, it is easy to stay out of Type 1, for
some few, it will

not be easy. Incentivizing a change to Open Type will open more
possibilities, no

doubt.


Paulo Ney



On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 9:13 AM Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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