![]() Effective January, 2023, Adobe will no longer support Type 1 fonts in any of its applications, except Acrobat, and we’ll get to that. Yes, yes it is time to say “goodbye” to Type 1 fonts, also referred to as PostScript fonts, or PS.Īnd it’s not by choice, either. But it’s not unreasonable for Adobe and other tech companies to move on to OpenType, which is still going strong after 25 years, with its most recent update so far in November 2020.That’s the short and easy answer to the question which is the title of this article. It’s impressive that PostScript Type 1 fonts have retained support for nearly 40 years-those who bought in early got an amazing run for their money. It’s not cheap, but it may be your only alternative. Although we haven’t tried it, Mike Rankin at CreativePro recommends TransType, which costs $97. ![]() The Trademark metadata is a good place to look, and some fonts may have Manufacturer, Designer, or Copyright metadata that might provide contact information.įinally, what should you do if you rely on specific Type 1 fonts and no OpenType versions are available? It might be possible to convert your fonts from Type 1 to OpenType. Select a font in Font Book and click the i button in the toolbar. However, you can start by looking at the font metadata to see who created the font or holds its trademark. That may be easier said than done, given how old many of these are likely to be. For other Type 1 fonts, including those sold by Adobe, Adobe recommends contacting the font foundry to see if there’s a discounted upgrade path. As you go about your weekly and monthly tasks, if you encounter a problem with a missing font, you may wish to reinstall that font until you can find a different solution.įor a Type 1 font published by Adobe Type, the company says you can contact its partner Fontspring to receive a discount when upgrading the font to an OpenType version. This is just in case any old documents or older software on your Mac is using those font files. Instead, temporarily sequester them in a special folder. If you’re more cautious, don’t trash those files immediately. In all likelihood, there will be other font support files in there as well, so make sure you don’t need to keep anything before tossing it all in the trash. That opens a new Finder window with the font files selected. If that’s the case, choose Show in Finder instead. Delete Type 1 FontsĪlthough it would seem like Font Book should let you delete fonts directly, when you Control-click a font, the Remove command may be dimmed out. You can just delete them and move on, replace them with modern OpenType fonts, or convert them to OpenType. Once you have a sense of which of your fonts will be impacted by this change, you have three options.
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