For Adobe applications, there are obviously many benefits in terms of base character sets as well as built-in support for ligatures, alternatives (swashes, small caps, lower case numerals, superscripts, subscripts, etc.), etc.
What is true is that many other applications, especially Microsoft Office under Windows, no longer support Type 1 fonts.Īs such, if you are using non-Adobe applications, it would be very prudent to migrate to OpenType fonts as soon as possible. This includes Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and FrameMaker.īoth MacOS and Windows at the operating system level do continue to support Type 1 fonts although you must remember that MacOS Type 1 fonts have a very different file format than those used on Windows. To be very clear, all Adobe products that have supported Type 1 fonts continue to support Type 1 fonts.
