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Old Type 1 Fonts?

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Old Type 1 Fonts?

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Hi all,
I was going through shelves of old tech sheets, install documentation, and old manuals tonight and bumped into an Adobe Illustrator 8 Extras stack I printed long ago. Back then, the program came with roughly 300 Type 1 official Adobe fonts. I've copied all the fonts and the PFM data to my hard drive and have them backed up.

For a while, and especially so on a Mac, you had to install Adobe Type Manager to use Type 1 fonts. Adobe was pushing that format and Windows was pushing Type 1. For some reason, I still thought you needed it on the PC to use Type 1 fonts. I was digging around tonight for a converter only to realize I can simply install them as we do True Type fonts.

I know you have to be careful of loading too many fonts in most systems. Not sure if you have the same limitations on a new Windows 7 machine or not yet. Still, it is nice to know I can access all those Adobe fonts.

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Re: Old Type 1 Fonts?

Post by erik winkler »

Mike,

I use Suitcase from Extensis and this program 'eats' all kind of old format fonts.
It is very clean and easy to work with and will not slow down computer processing speed when you de-activate certain installed fonts.
In other words: they are installed, but are not open to work with unless you mark then as open.

This is where you can find the program: http://www.extensis.com/en/products/fon ... LAQAAUQ0FQ

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