https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701
--- Comment #16 from Buovjaga <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Bruce Byfield from comment #15)
> Still, what irritates me is how unnecessary the change is. Did anyone think
> to ask graphic designers using LibreOffice? The decision seems arbitrary,
> based on the interest of developers, and not in the best interest of users.
Why do you claim it is unnecessary, as if we could have continued supporting
Type 1 without a significant development effort?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts#Type_1 "They are not supported
in the Windows GDI+, WPF or DirectWrite APIs"
MS Office dropped Type 1 support in 2013, with the only way to use them being
an awkward workaround:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8c15a4ea-ac83-40bd-8800-d3532e1dee07/office-2013-and-type-1-fonts-not-supported?forum=officesetupdeploy
The writing has been on the wall for Type 1 fonts for a long time.
Users of Type 1 fonts have been forced to jump through hoops for years:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/7382830#7382830 Adobe principal scientist
commenting in 2015: "it is really a good time to accelerate migration to
cross-platform OpenType fonts."
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