Adobe ditching Type 1 fonts

[Gary Hoffman]

But isn’t the point that you may want to reach the maximum number of
readers? Many have Acrobat Reader and wouldn’t have a clue where to find an
open source alternative.

G Hoffman



On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:29 PM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
wrote:

> > Adobe announced (very quietly) a few weeks ago that they will phase out
> > Type 1 fonts from all PDF tools, this January 2023, including Adobe
> Reader:
>
> Who cares?
>
> I am far less concerned about some commercial tool I don't plan to use
> nor have used.
>
> Maybe that is a good reason for many users to ditch these rubbish
> products and move to better open source alternatives?
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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