PostScript Type 1 fonts will be deprecated in the future, which may cause rendering problems for some older files.
Anyone who has ever worked with a post editor has probably come across PostScript Type 1 fonts. Vector graphics are used for PostScript fonts, which ensures that their display quality does not change when resizing. Supports ‘wysiwyg’ affected fonts (What you see is what you getwhich means what you see is what you get) on the output device.
The most popular PostScript font was “Type 1”. Anyone who has used Adobe or Office in the past decades must have come across it. After a while, the type monopoly became untenable, so in the early 1990s Adobe created its own vector-based character set, the TrueType format, which it then made available to Microsoft.
TrueType and PostScript Type 1 were both later replaced by the OpenType font format resulting from the collaboration between Microsoft and Adobe, which became dominant in most operating systems and software as an open source standard by the mid-2000s.
Although Microsoft Office for Windows hasn’t supported PostScript Type 1 fonts since 2013, most applications haven’t followed suit. So far. In recent days, similar to Adobe’s January decision, Office optimized for Mac has ended support.
Those who have recently started editing texts and posts will most likely not have any serious problems with switching, but it is quite possible that error messages will appear when opening texts written in PostScript Type 1 types by old cyclists. Even if the specified program tries to replace them with the correct OpenType fonts, too many layout errors will render the old texts almost unreadable.
According to Adobe, PDF and ESL files containing “Type 1” characters will also display if viewed as graphics or printed. However, it will not be editable.
It is not clear what font formats our devices use, but we can search for them with a few clicks. On Windows 10 and 11, in the Fonts subsection of the Control Panel, if you switch to detail view, you can check the Fonts box by right-clicking the top row. On macOS, if you switch to list view in the Font Book app, you’ll find fonts listed in the column labeled “Format.”
