Likewise, Apple has made no such announcement. Although Microsoft has discontinued support of Type 1 fonts in Microsoft Office on Windows, no announcement has been made by Microsoft vis-a-vis any elimination of Type 1 font support in Windows. The system Times New Roman fonts (same font metrics, slightly different design) are used in lieu of Times Roman.Ī further note. If Adobe Reader or Acrobat encounters a reference to an unembedded Helvetica font in a PDF file and if there is no Helvetica of any format installed on one's system (MacOS has a TrueType version of the Helvetica font family bundled with the operating system), the system Arial font (same font metrics including character widths, slightly different design) is automatically used as a substitute.Ī similar situation exists with Times Roman. Note however, that the Helvetica Type 1 (or any other format for that matter) font family is not bundled with either Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (and hasn't been since Acrobat 4 many years ago). Thus, the 2023 announcement doesn't affect Acrobat (or Reader)!!! Type 1 fonts are an integral part of both the PDF and PostScript specifications. To clear up a misconception, Acrobat is absolutely not ending support of Type 1 fonts.
