19 October 2017
Every Typefi product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it is no longer supported. Typefi provides a minimum of two years of product support from the general availability date. Typefi supports Adobe® Creative Cloud® and Microsoft® Office releases on a rolling, three major version, schedule—support for new Adobe or Microsoft releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
What does End of Support mean?
End of support means that Typefi no longer provides technical support, including product or security updates, for all derivatives of a product or product version (that is, localized versions, minor upgrades, operating systems, or dot and double-dot releases).
What should I do now?
You may continue to use Typefi products after they are no longer supported, but Typefi will no longer provide updates or address any existing bugs or security issues in the software. Because of this, it is strongly recommended that you update to the latest versions. This will ensure that you benefit from all new functional enhancements and security updates, in addition to support for newer operating systems. Technical support for end of life products is also discontinued.
Typefi product support matrix
Supported products are indicated by a black circle ●. Products nearing their end of life are indicated by a gray circle ●. Unsupported products are indicated by a white circle ○.
Typefi Cloud Bronze (shared hosting)
| Version | General availability |
End of life |
InDesign Server | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | CC | CS6 | CS5.5 | CS5 | CS4 | ||||
| cloud.typefi.net | 8.3 | 03 Sep 2017 | † | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
| 8.2 | 14 Oct 2016 | 3 Sep 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
| 8.1 | 29 Apr 2016 | 14 Oct 2016 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||
| 8.0 | 24 Sep 2015 | 29 Apr 2016 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||
| c.bronze.typefi.net | 7.4 | 21 Nov 2013 | 31 Oct 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
| b.bronze.typefi.net | 6.0 | 02 Oct 2012 | 24 Jan 2015 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||
| a.bronze.typefi.net | 5.1 | 20 Oct 2011 | 29 Jul 2013 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||
Typefi Cloud Gold (private hosting), Typefi Workgroup, and Typefi Desktop
| Version | General availability |
End of life |
InDesign and InDesign Server | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | CC | CS6 | CS5.5 | CS5 | CS4 | ||||
| Typefi 8 | 8.3 | 22 Aug 2017 | 31 Aug 2019 | † | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
| 8.2 | 05 Sep 2016 | 30 Sep 2018 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
| 8.1 | 02 Mar 2016 | 31 Mar 2018 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
| 8.0 | 23 Sep 2015 | 30 Sep 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
| Typefi Publish | 7.4 | 29 Jun 2015 | 31 Oct 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
| 7.3 | 07 Nov 2012 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| 7.2 | 15 Aug 2014 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| 7.1 | 30 Jun 2014 | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| 7.0 | 14 Oct 2013 | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| 6.0 | 23 Sep 2012 | 31 Dec 2015 | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||
| 5.1 | 25 Sep 2011 | 30 Nov 2013 | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||
| 5.0 | 23 Feb 2011 | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
† Adobe announced the 2018 release of InDesign on 18 October at the Adobe MAX conference. Per our policy, support for the 2018 release of InDesign and InDesign Server will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
Other Plug-ins
| Product name | Version | General availability |
End of life |
InDesign | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | CC | CS6 | CS5.5 | CS5 | CS4 | ||||
| AutoFit | 8 | 05 Jan 2017 | † | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||
| 6 | 27 Feb 2013 | 5 Jan 2017 | ○ | |||||||||
| 2.1 | 17 Jan 2012 | 27 Feb 2013 | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| 2 | 10 Sep 2011 | 17 Jan 2012 | ○ | |||||||||
| Typefitter | 4 | 11 Jan 2016 | § | † | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | |||
| TypeFitter Pro ‡ | 3 | 19 Sep 2008 | 11 Jan 2016 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||
| 2 | 05 Jun 2007 | 19 Sep 2008 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||
| 1 | 12 Jun 2005 | 5 Jun 2007 | ||||||||||
† Typefitter for InDesign CS6 was made end of life on 6 April 2017, but remains available as a free (unsupported) download.
§ Adobe announced the 2018 release of InDesign on 18 October at the Adobe MAX conference. Per our policy, support for the 2018 release of InDesign and InDesign Server will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
‡ Typefi acquired TypeFitter Pro from Teacup Software in late 2015 and re-released it as Typefitter in early 2016.
Third-party compatibility matrix
Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign comes as two products: InDesign, a desktop application for designing page layouts for print or digital distribution; and InDesign Server, a service for programmatically creating automated documents based on what you've created with InDesign. For purposes of product support, "InDesign" refers to both InDesign (desktop) and InDesign Server.
Typefi supports Adobe Creative Cloud releases on a rolling, three major versions, schedule—support for new Adobe releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
| Version | General availability |
End of life † |
Typefi compatibility | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | ||||
| InDesign CC 2018 | 13 | 18 Oct 2017 | ‡ | ||||||||||||
| InDesign CC 2017 | 12 | 02 Nov 2016 | 31 Jan 2020 | ● | ● | ||||||||||
| InDesign CC 2015 | 11 | 15 Jun 2015 | 31 Jan 2019 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
| InDesign CC 2014 | 10 | 18 Jun 2013 | 31 Jan 2018 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | |||||
| InDesign CC | 9 | 15 Jun 2013 | 31 Oct 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||
| InDesign CS6 | 8 | 23 Apr 2012 | 31 Oct 2017 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||
| InDesign CS5.5 | 7.5 | 03 May 2011 | 30 May 2016 | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| InDesign CS5 | 7 | 30 Apr 2010 | 12 Apr 2015 | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| InDesign CS4 | 6 | 20 Jan 2009 | 30 Feb 2014 | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
† Adobe Support Policy limits product support to the latest release of Creative Cloud. Support for previous Creative Cloud releases or legacy Creative Suite® products is available only with an active Adobe Gold Support contract.
‡ Adobe announced the 2018 release of InDesign on 18 October at the Adobe MAX conference. Per our policy, support for the 2018 release of InDesign and InDesign Server will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
Microsoft Word
Typefi supports Microsoft Office releases on a rolling, three major versions, schedule—support for new Microsoft releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.
| Version | General availability |
End of life † |
Typefi compatibility | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | ||||
| Word 2016 ‡ | 16 | 22 Sep 2015 | 14 Oct 2025 | ● | ● | ||||||||||
| Word 2013 | 15 | 09 Jan 2013 | 11 Apr 2023 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
| Word 2010 | 14 | 15 Jul 2010 | 14 Oct 2020 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | |||||
| Word 2007 | 12 | 27 Jan 2007 | 10 Oct 2017 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||
| Word 2003 | 11 | 17 Nov 2003 | 8 Apr 2014 | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
† Microsoft Lifecycle Policy allows for 10 years of product support (a minimum of five years Mainstream Support and a minimum of five years Extended Support).
‡ One of the benefits of Office 365® is that Microsoft provides new features for Office apps on a regular basis. The schedule for these updates depends on your selected update channel. Typefi only certifies compatibility with Microsoft Word 2016 on the Semi-annual update channel. While the Monthly (formerly "Current") channel provides new or updated features, and security and non-security updates at least once each month, these releases are only supported until the next monthly channel release is available and may break compatibility with Typefi Writer. For these reasons, Typefi strongly recommends the Semi-annual (formerly "Deferred") update channel that also provides new or updated features, and security and non-security updates, but on a slower cadence of two (formerly three) updates each year while extending support to 18 months (starting from first release).
Operating systems
| Product name | Version | General availability |
Typefi compatibility | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | |||
| macOS | 10.13 | 05 Oct 2017 | ● | |||||||||||
| 10.12 | 20 Sep 2016 | ● | ● | |||||||||||
| 10.11 | 30 Sep 2015 | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||||
| 10.10 | 16 Oct 2014 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | |||||||
| 10.9 | 22 Oct 2013 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||
| 10.8 | 25 Jul 2012 | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| 10.7 | 20 Jul 2011 | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||
| 10.6 | 28 Aug 2009 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| 10.5 | 26 Oct 2007 | ○ | ○ | |||||||||||
| Windows | 10 | 29 Jul 2015 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
| 8 | 26 Oct 2012 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||
| 7 | 22 Oct 2009 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |
| Vista | 30 Jan 2007 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| XP | 25 Oct 2001 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| Windows Server | 2016 | 12 Oct 2016 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
| 2012 | 04 Sep 2012 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||
| 2008 | 27 Feb 2008 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||
| 2003 | 24 Apr 2003 | ○ | ○ | |||||||||||
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