Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

> Hi Paulo,
>
> On 21/09/2022 10:09, Paulo Ney de Souza 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:
> [...]
>
> You surely haven't read your TUGboat vol. 42(!), no. 1, 2021, page 19 in
Typographers' Inn by Peter Flynn.
>
> Cheers,
>     Volker

I did read it Volker (not previously, only after you pointed it to me), but
the text only deals of issue of DISPLAY
which is not really much of a concern, other issues are.

Paulo Ney

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:59 AM Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> čt 22. 9. 2022 v 12:54 odesílatel Paulo Ney de Souza
> <pauloney at gmail.com> napsal:
> >
> > > But isn’t the point that you may want to reach the maximum number of
> > > readers? Many have Acrobat Reader and wouldn’t have a clue where to
> find an
> > > open source alternative.
> > >
> > > G Hoffman
> >
> > Not to mention that some of these alternatives plain -- do not exist --
> or example,
> > try sign or annotate a PDF file on Android or iOS.
> >
> And try to scan a series of pages to PDF and optimize it so that the
> backround is no longer a bitmap but a rectangle containig many small
> bitmaps, the compression is 20:1 with quality even ioncreased. I do
> not know a better tool than Adob Acrobat Professional 9. That's why I
> stil keep Windows XP in a VM.
>
> > Paulo Ney
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
>
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