MS Word 2013 to drop Type1 & CFF support

Lucas de Groot

This was posted 10 months ago, but I missed it until today, when the first customer complained that our fonts can not be installed in the latest MS Word. :-(
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178954.aspx
(search for CFF)
Everybody ready to switch to TrueType?

Chris Lozos

Great.

Lucas de Groot

Relief, the Microsoft announcement is wrong, I just installed Office 2013, CFF works fine :-)

Karl Stange

Is Microsoft perhaps referring to "bare" CFF data as specified in Adobe Technical Note #5176 (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5176.CFF.pdf), rather than CFF (PostScript) format OpenType fonts?

J_Tillman

There was a known problem with CFF fonts in MS Word 2010 when making a PDF. Read what Si_Daniels says in the middle here:
http://typophile.com/node/72404

and more here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-problem-with-postscript-type-1-fonts-and/a2ed8933-6a31-4371-82fc-1fa56c81d22e?page=4
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-save-as-pdf-not-embedding-adobe-opentype/22a13c2f-11b0-4a5d-9657-c89b58ec8a8f

And there is an indication the problem continues in MS Word 2013:
http://typophile.com/node/103890
Does anyone know for sure about Word 2013?