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Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Calling it a “loader” dramatically understates what is involved in supporting the Type 1 font format. I have spent literally decades working with the people who were actually doing the programming of…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
As I said in the original post, Adobe is not ending support in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader and Adobe Sign. And I just remembered a blog post I made on behalf of Adobe in 2005, talking about phasing out T…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Sure. But it is also an expense to continue supporting a legacy format forever. What proportion of other software that you licensed between 1985 and 2005, are you still running the same version of, …1 -
Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Back when Adobe finished converting its font library to OpenType around 2003-04, I wanted to draw some kind of line in the sand, but that idea got quickly shot down from many sides. However, the day …0 -
Fontocalypse Now?
So, I wrote an article about some changes in the font biz over the past decade or more: so. https://www.commarts.com/columns/fontocalypse-now (the print article has a sidebar, which is why there is t…10
