Just installed and have to head out, I will test later today.
So far the only concern I have is the soon death of Type 1 fonts. We have many hundreds (thousands?) of them used all over the place. Not all have equivalents in OTF or TTF. Of course, converting is always an option but tedious when you're talking about thousands of files across 30 or so folders. We have fonts in alphabetical folders according to name, plus a few special folders for other groups, so filtering all those and feeding them into a font converter will be a large task plus the problem of dealing with ones that don't convert automatically and need to be loaded individually into Font Forge or something equivalent and manually rebuilt. It was bad enough when Adobe decided to drop support, at least we still could use them in Draw, now that's not going to be an option either.
For now it seems support is there, any hint on when it will be removed?
I'm kind of surprised Microsoft hasn't already removed the ability to install/use Postscript Type 1 fonts in Windows 11. The fonts still work for now. It's possible Type 1 font support could be removed in the upcoming Win 11 24H2 release. Or it may happen with the Windows 12 release late next year. IIRC official support for Windows 10 ends in 2025. At any rate, the clock is ticking on those old Type 1 fonts.
I recall using TransType years ago, don't have a current copy though. I am using a utility called CrossFont that seems to do what I need. Got it mainly a long time ago to convert MAC fonts to PC but it handily converts T1 to OTF as well. It's just going to be a long road, and I'm trying to figure out a way to batch process or automate it. The offending T1 fonts are scattered all through various folders so it's a matter of picking a folder, converting all of them, then moving the old T1 font files out of the folder so it can then be scanned by Font Manager without the old files. Just tedious and time consuming but I'll hack at it until it's done. It is nice to have a folder with 10 files in it when it's done instead of the 30 or more that were there.
I've only come across the new variable fonts once, and told the customer that they will have to deal with the single variant equivalents which were 99% exactly the same as the variable ones their designer picked. I think it was a matter of them using the shiny new thing just for the sake of using the shiny new thing and no other reason. Customer was happy so it worked out.
"Customer was happy so it worked out"
That's the tale of the tape!!
OK I spent a couple hours yesterday converting all the fonts. Once I got a process going it wasn't too bad. Font Manager still insists there are Type 1 fonts but it won't remove them from the list even though the files are gone. Also still insists some of them are installed even though they are not, won't delete them, won't uninstall them, rebooted several times, won't go away. But that's not a big issue.
The big issue is that when I open a file with Type 1 fonts, it gives the warning and has the button to replace fonts, but it doesn't bring up the replace font dialog, just opens the file and replaces the fonts in question with Arial.
This is not good.
I don't see any way to bring up the replace font dialog after a file is open, so I have to manually look through the file to see what text is using Arial (which I almost never use intentionally so it's obvious usually) then try to figure out what font it's supposed to be. On one file I had to resort to opening the file in a zip program and extracting the "fontTable.dat" file, opening that in Notepad+ and converting to UTF-8 in order to read the fonts actually used in the file, then manually replace them.
So, anyone know a way to force the font replacer dialog on file open so I can have some chance of this working correctly?
Hmmm just tried another file and on first open it didn't give the replace dialog and automatically replaced Stone Informal with Eras Contour Lefty Wide (that's a real accurate change, WTF?) but I tried changing the code page in the file open dialog and it gave the replace dialog this time, with Eras for Stone Informal but at least now I can change the font to the new OTF Stone Informal. So that's a workaround I guess, if it works like that every time.
This is going to require some thinking and at this point in time I've been 6 straight hours of image editing and 3 hours of organizing files for my wife on drives for viewing at upcoming events. So, I'm functionally brain dead! Tomorrow!
This is how I handled the fonts on my system. I removed all NON-system fonts from Windows and placed them into an alphabetical folder. I removed all my fonts from my linked Corel Font Manager folders and reset the font database. The uninstalled in Windows fonts were placed in alphabetical folders.
I processed the fonts that I removed from Windows through TransType then reinstalled them into Windows. These are all my regularly used fonts about 1,500 fonts.
I then created a root folder with a set of alphabetical folders and as I processed my archived fonts through TransType I placed them in their proper folder. I linked Corel Font Manager to this new root folder and restarted the program.
All new fonts are processed through TransType before being placed in there respective folder.