Chills Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 I have just looked at the V2.5.3 Release Notes, and they have finally stopped support for Type 1 (Postscript) Fonts Type 1 fonts came about in 1985 but by 1991 had been surpassed by other formats such as TrueType and their use has been dwindeling for the last 30 years. Adobe stopped supporting them in 2021, and they invented Type 1 fonts! So if you are loading any documents after updating to V2.5.3 and it says "missing fonts" this might be why. There is no going back, you will have to find a TrueType or OFT replacement. Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 17 minutes ago, Chills said: I have just looked at the V2.5.3 Release Notes, and they have finally stopped support for Type 1 (Postscript) Fonts The Release Notes for 2.5.3 do not say that. They report that a particular bug ("Type 1 fonts no longer appear listed [AF-3366]" which affected Windows users has been fixed. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted June 24 Author Share Posted June 24 9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: The Release Notes for 2.5.3 do not say that. They report that a particular bug ("Type 1 fonts no longer appear listed [AF-3366]" which affected Windows users has been fixed. Good point, but they are stopping support for Type 1 fonts. I went through and checked my PC the other day and no type 1 fonts. I did have a CD of 1000's of fonts "somewhere" but that is lost in the mist somewhere. Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 19 minutes ago, Chills said: but they are stopping support for Type 1 fonts. Yes, but "they" is not yet the Affinity applications It ("they") is, perhaps, Adobe and/or Apple and/or Microsoft or someone else. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: It ("they") is, perhaps, Adobe and/or Apple and/or Microsoft or someone else. Adobe definitely; did not check about the others. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted June 25 Author Share Posted June 25 8 hours ago, R C-R said: Adobe definitely; did not check about the others. In another thread, Dan C an Affinity staff members said : As I understand it, the Affinity apps rely on the operating system for supporting Type1 fonts Adobe has stopped supporting type 1 as has Apple in MacOS as from Ventura and it seems Microsoft is following suite having dropped support in new versions of MS Office. You can argue semantics and split hairs, but Type 1 fonts are going, and it is probably time to transition any old documents now rather than when it is "very urgent" Alfred, walt.farrell and R C-R 3 Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mave Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 I use transtype4 tot convert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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