https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165410
Buovjaga <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|--- |WONTFIX Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED CC| |ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoff | |ice.org --- Comment #1 from Buovjaga <[email protected]> --- I commented on it in bug 104701 comment 16 (see also the other comments in that report): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts#Type_1 "They are not > supported in the Windows GDI+, WPF or DirectWrite APIs" > > MS Office dropped Type 1 support in 2013, with the only way to use them > being an awkward workaround: > https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8c15a4ea-ac83-40bd- > 8800-d3532e1dee07/office-2013-and-type-1-fonts-not- > supported?forum=officesetupdeploy > > The writing has been on the wall for Type 1 fonts for a long time. > > Users of Type 1 fonts have been forced to jump through hoops for years: > https://forums.adobe.com/message/7382830#7382830 Adobe principal scientist > commenting in 2015: "it is really a good time to accelerate migration to > cross-platform OpenType fonts." See the ESC decision: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-October/075652.html * Bitmap fonts on Windows (Michael) + no good physical font API on Windows + DirectWrite provides one. + doesn't work with Bitmap Fonts. + Office 2013 dropped bitmap / Type1 fonts and more long ago. + Biting us with Harfbuzz in some cases. + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103514 + an issue for the WinXP support (Cloph) + Harfbuzz doesn't support that. (and will not support Type1 fonts) + 5.3 will be the last with current rendering + see no point in also support bitmap fonts in 5.4 + thought Khaled pushed a patch to make it work on WinXP (Caolan) + but happy to loose bitmap fonts. + we get a fallback font anyway (Michael) => abandoning bitmap / Type 1 fonts etc. if not DirectWrite supported in future. Photoshop switched to Harfbuzz in 2023, so also dropped support for Type 1 fonts: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/announcement-end-of-support-postscript-type-1-fonts.html There is some discussion in this issue from 2019: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1682 Behdad asked, if Adobe was interested in contributing to adding support and an Adobe rep said: "Adobe sees non-cross platform font format Type 1 as a legacy font technology and is not enthusiastic about supporting it in new endeavors like HB. Instead we see OpenType (TT or CFF, now CFF2) as the future." So I don't see it as a worthy investment at this point as everyone else wants to move on. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
