You should begin to see warnings in applications like InDesign if you are using any Type 1 fonts in documents that you are editing.įor more details about upgrade paths and other information, refer to the Help document linked above. Users of documents with Type 1 fonts will need to replace their fonts with OpenType versions of the same fonts before the deadline. In addition, Acrobat and other Document Cloud applications will continue to display and work with Type 1 fonts. It will continue to be placed in InDesign, Illustrator, and FrameMaker documents and such documents will be able to be properly displayed, printed, or exported to PDF. OpenType fonts support many more characters than Type 1 fonts, they support extended language character sets, and they have a standard file format between operating systems.Īdobe’s “end of support” does not affect PostScript (including EPS) or PDF content with embedded Type 1 fonts. They lack support for Unicode information.
While Type 1 fonts are still supported by some operating systems, they aren’t supported on the web or with mobile OSs. Beginning in 1996, Adobe products and type development was switched to the much more versatile OpenType format, co-developed with Microsoft. Type 1 fonts were introduced by Adobe for use with its PostScript page description language in 1984, and it was widely used in the early days of desktop publishing.
(Adobe Photoshop will end support for Type 1 fonts in 2021, as announced in 2019.) This article will focus on how to deploy an up to date version of Adobe. Only installing this executable will get you the 2015 version 203, which is by now (2021) extremely out dated. Adobe announced in a Help document published Januthat they would discontinue support in their software for PostScript Type 1 fonts for authoring (including creating new content or editing existing content) in January 2023. There are several blogs that describe how to do this, however they all use the default Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Distribution executable.
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