Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats.

Adobe has helpfully retained support in its software for over 35 years—a nice move given the fact that it made billions on Type 1 fonts prior to the OpenType transition. But it’s saying that ...

Type 1 fonts were introduced by Adobe in 1984 as a proprietary specification, and they were designed to be used with Adobe Type Manager software and PostScript printers.

Adobe also says that PDF and EPS files with Type 1 fonts will continue to render properly, as long as those fonts are "placed for display or printing as graphic elements." That text will not be ...

Adobe argues that most browsers and mobile operating systems do not support Type 1 fonts, and that most operating systems rely on the "more robust technical capabilities" of OpenType fonts ...

Adobe Font Folio 9.0 now includes 2,750 Type 1 fonts from the Adobe Type Library, including more than 300 new fonts. (The company’s site had not been updated to reflect the version change as we ...

In 2022 Adobe Systems announced it was ending support for PostScript Type 1 fonts. This had been coming for a long time, given TrueType and OpenType's now dominance as font standards.

One of the problems cited regarding Adobe Type Manager in Troubleshooting Mac OS 8.5 is the claim that: "it does not render screen fonts properly." Reader Thomas Piwowar believes this may be a ...

Software from Adobe that was used with earlier versions of Mac and Windows for printing Type 1 PostScript fonts on non-PostScript printers. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) was built into the OS/2 and ...

Microsoft is discontinuing Adobe Type 1 fonts due to Adobe's decision to end support for this font series in January 2023. Developers should switch to a supported font type and users can check ...

Point size: Type and fonts are measured in archaic units called points, one point being very close to 1/72 of an inch. Text (normal reading) sizes tend to run in the range of 8 to 12 points; the ...