![]() ![]() ![]() This application has been developed for the professional users like designers and typographers. ![]() FontLab OverviewįontLab is a professional font editor that will support all of the major outline font formats which includes Type 1, TrueType, OpenType and Multiple Master. It is full offline installer standalone setup of FontLab for 32/64. Good luck.FontLab Free Download Latest Version for Windows. ![]() Other DTP companies (like Quark and even Affinity) are also clinging to threads but will eventually succumb so, as far as "If I can find an alternative design platform, I will move tomorrow.". Microsoft Office had already ended support a couple of years ago. The Type 1 discontinuation is industry-wide and any software from any company going forward will face the issue as well. The illegal sharing of fonts have been the bane of all the font vendors over the years, so I can sympathize the plight of Linotype/Monotype/Bauer/Berthold, etc wanting to remove their fonts from the Adobe pool and sell them through their own sites or cloud services. So, somewhere in your company history someone should have purchased the license for your AG Book. Also, you're likely skirting legalities of the license. Sure, you can use a font converter and make OTF versions of your existing ones, but you will be limited to the 256 character sets of the original and no OpenType features. Even families in Adobe's main catalog sold in the $200-$300 range for a family of 4, so $600 for a family of 8 styles this day and age is reasonable, especially since you are now getting Pro versions with extended OpenType support and glyphs. That being said, even in the short span of their availability through Adobe, the Berthold Exclusiv fonts were well over $300 per family (I remember paying something like $400 for Akzidenz Grotesk back then). Regardless, Adobe's inclusion of Berthold fonts were on a non-exclusive basis (Berthold themselves sold the fonts through their own channel and other vendors). According to my old Adobe Font Library catalogs I have, they DID include AG Book Rounded and Stencil, but never the main families. I also see no evidence that AG Book has ever been in any of Adobe's Font folios, or included in the Berthold Exclusivs that Adobe licensed and sold ONLY for about 5 years until they pulled them in 1998/99 (Berthold went out of business in 1993 and, long story short, the successor to the Berthold library did not come to an agreement with Adobe and hence, they were dropped). "Who made such a stupid decision? For example, Berthold fonts are among the most extensively used fonts because they invented typesetting." Remember, these usage/licensing fees are per weight and per use (or edition or project). Here's a sample from the Monotype/Linotype website: You'll need to purchase an ePub license to embed fonts into PDFs. Check their website for details before you purchase. And it's calculated for each individual document and edition you produce. But as soon as you want to embed the fonts into a PDF or EPUB, that requires an additional license fee that is based on the number of weights used in the file. The basic "desktop font" lets you download and install the font on your computer, use it in your programs, and print your documents to a desktop printer connected to your computer. You might be able to contact Monotype directly (they now own the entire Berthold library) and see if they'll upgrade your old PostScript version for a new OpenType version.īut beware: licensing and usage rights from Monotype have drastically changed. If your original version from Berthold was purchased/licensed 40 years ago, then you purchased a PostScript / Type1 font. In 2000, the entire computer industry (not just Adobe) agreed to retire PostScript (aka Type 1) and old TrueType fonts because they don't have the technology to work on websites, smart phones, tablets, with accessibility software, or with most other essential modern day technologies. When Bob says years, he really means 23 years. ![]()
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