A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs ...

In brief: Microsoft has updated the list of Windows features that are no longer being developed and likely to be removed from future editions of the OS. The August 2024 revision added Adobe Type1 ...

Details have been disclosed on a patched Adobe Type Manager Font Driver flaw that could enable takeover of a number of systems supporting modern font engines. A Google Project Zero researcher has ...

It used to be easy. Your fonts were in a folder somewhere and used activation software (the word 'suitcase' meant something quite different to graphic designers than it did to holidaymakers) to ...

Upcoming Windows releases will no longer include support for Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts. Microsoft is now announcing the end of Type 1 font support. The discontinuation has now appeared on ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...