Adobe® Garamond® Pro Read Me
Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions
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History
An Adobe
® Originals design, and Adobe's first historical revival, Adobe Garamond is a digital interpretation of the roman types of Claude Garamond and the italic types of Robert Granjon. Since its release in 1989, Adobe Garamond has become a typographic staple throughout the world of desktop typography and design. Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach has captured the beauty and balance of the original Garamond typefaces while creating a typeface family that offers all the advantages of a contemporary digital type family. With the introduction of the OpenType
® font technology, Adobe Garamond has been reissued as a Pro type family that takes advantage of the advanced typographic capabilities of the OpenType
® font format. Now this elegant type family can be used with even greater efficiency and precision in OpenType
® compatible applications such as the Adobe InDesign software.
Menu Names And Style Linking
In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on
the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of
the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the
bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be
accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic
and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the
following base style font names in the menu:
Adobe Garamond Pro
Adobe Garamond Pro Bold
The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name
and then a style option following the guide below.
| Menu Name | | plus Style Option... | | selects this font |
| Adobe Garamond Pro | | [none] | | Adobe Garamond Pro Regular |
| Adobe Garamond Pro | | Italic | | Adobe Garamond Pro Italic |
| Adobe Garamond Pro | | Bold | | Adobe Garamond Pro Semibold |
| Adobe Garamond Pro | | Bold, Italic | | Adobe Garamond Pro Semibold Italic |
| | | | | |
| Adobe Garamond Pro Bold | | [none] | | Adobe Garamond Pro Bold |
| Adobe Garamond Pro Bold | | Italic | | Adobe Garamond Pro Bold Italic |
| | | | | |
On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the
font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links.
Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described
above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with
many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker® software,
although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications
such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or
InDesign® software.
One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked
variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will
either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of
the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print
results.
For all fonts of family Adobe Garamond Pro: version 2.115 created on Fri Oct 19 18:44:13 2012.
version 2.115 created 2012/10/19
- Rebuilt fonts with new MakeOTF version.
version 2.114 created 2012/08/15
version 2.113 created 2012/06/27
- Added rupeeindian/liraturkish glyphs.
version 2.112 created 2011/06/23
- TrueType fonts now have the same vertical metrics as the OpenType fonts.
version 2.111 created 2011/03/23
- Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
- Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
- Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.
- Regenerated the TT version to revise the vertical metrics and incorporate new y-direction hinting information.
version 2.090 created 2010/09/02
- Regenerated the TT version to revise the vertical metrics and fix x-height misalignments.
version 2.075 created 2010/07/20
- Trimmed the slash extremities in zero.slash.
- Raised crossbar of lowercase t (Italic and SemiboldItalic fonts).
- Deleted strayed outline in rupiah glyph (SemiboldItalic font).
- Replaced commaaccent by cedilla in T/tcedilla glyphs.
- Changed the final glyphnames of T/tcedilla to uni0162/0163.
- Changed the final glyphnames of T/tcommaaccent to uni021A/021B.
- Revised alignment zones and hinting settings.
- Made small adjustments to various glyphs to make them snap to the alignment zones.
- Generated TT version.
version 2.074 created 2009/11/23
- Corrected font menu names in name table for Mac platform names. Name
- ID's 1,2 16 and 17 are now written following the same rules as the
- Windows platform names. Previous releases put the Preferred Name
- and Style in Mac platform name ID 1 and 2, and did not write name ID
- 16 and 17, for legacy issues with old Mac OS versions.
version 2.059 created 2009/08/11
- Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.
version 2.040 created 2007/08/16
- Release for Adobe® Font Folio® 11
- Added superior alternates for numbers.
- Added glyphs: one.superior, two.superior, three.superior as duplicates of onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior.
- Changed substitutions in 'sups' to use new alternates.
- Simplified 'ordn' feature.
- Removed contextual rules from 'ordn' feature. Simplified substitutions.
- Added f-ligatures for use in 'liga' feature.
- Added glyphs: f_i as duplicate of fi; f_l as duplicate of fl.
- Changed substitutions in 'liga' to use these new ligatures.
- Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
- Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
- Added support for spaces in arbitrary fractions.
- Added glyphs: space.frac, nbspace.frac as new, thin space to harmonize with fraction numerals.
- Added glyph: slash.frac as duplicate of fraction.
- Added small cap alternate for dotlessi.
- Added glyph: dotlessi.sc as duplicate of i.sc.
- Added majuscule small cap alternates.
- Existing small cap glyph are alternates of lowercase letters. Most/all of these glyphs were duplicated to function as small cap alternates of uppercase letters.
- Added glyphs: "fi.sc" and "fl.sc".
- Added glyph "germandbls.sc".
- Added glyphs "uni021A.sc" (Tcedilla.sc) and "uni021B.sc" (tcedilla.sc).
- Added standard glyph duplicates.
- Added glyphs as duplicates of existing glyphs, for better character coverage: uni00A0, uni00AD, uni02C9, uni2215, uni2219, uni021A, uni021B, uniF6C1, uniF6C2.
- Added 'subs' feature, identical to 'sinf' feature.
- Changed ornament glyph names.
- Glyphs which had a base name of 'orn' were changed to a base name of 'bullet' to ensure proper name-to-character mapping.
- Added glyph "i.dot".
- Added glyph "i.dot" as duplicate of glyph "i". Added substitution to 'locl' feature to substitute "i.dot" from "i" in certain languages (e.g. Turkish).
- Added 'locl' feature.
- Added 'locl' feature with Turkish and Serbian substitutions. Added 'locl' feature to 'aalt' coverage.
- Added 'locl' to 'aalt' feature.
- Added locale feature ('locl') to the feature list of the "all alternates" feature ('aalt').
- Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
- Renamed "commaaccent" as "space_uni0326".
- Renamed uppercase accent glyphs.
- Changed unconventional names of uppercase accents to conventional names, e.g. Acute into acute.cap, Grave into grave.cap.
- Corrected glyph names with PUA Unicode values.
- Glyph with names corresponding to Unicode values in the Private Use Area (e.g. "uniF123") were given descriptive names adhering to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Changed PUA uni names to descriptive names.
- Changed glyph name "rupiah" to "R_p".
- This glyph has no Unicode value. It was given a ligature-like name which best expresses its form.
- Corrected names of accented Th ligature glyph.
- Previous names did not conform to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Corrected names of minuscule small cap glyphs, e.g. Asmall --> a.sc.
- Previous names did not conform to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Changed names of glyphs ending in "small" to end with ".sc" (e.g. "questionsmall" --> "question.sc").
- Previous names did not conform to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Corrected names of superior and inferior letter, symbol and punctuation glyphs.
- Previous names did not conform to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Changed names of glyphs ending in "oldstyle" to ".oldstyle".
- Previous names did not conform to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
- Changed glyph name "threequartersemdash" to "emdash.alt".
- Corrected names of ligature glyphs: ff --> f_f; ffi --> f_f_i; ffl --> f_f_l.
- Added missing lowercase glyphs to context of contextual swash ('cswh') feature.
- Some lowercase characters, such as "dotlessi" and "germandbls", were not included in lowercase glyph class of the contextual swash feature.
- Added swash alternates of "Tcedilla" glyphs.
- Added swash alternates of "Tcedilla" and "Tcedilla_h.swash".
- Added titling superior alternates for numbers.
- Added glyphs: one.superiortitling, two.superiortitling, three.superiortitling as duplicates of onesuperior.titling, twosuperior.titling, threesuperior.titling.
- Changed substitutions in 'ordn' and 'sups' to use new alternates.
- Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
- Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
- Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
- Add default language system.
- OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
version 1.007 created 2001/10/09
- lnum: Added Euro.oldstyle -> Euro
- case: Added Euro.oldstyle -> Euro
- Changed directory names; removed "Pro"
- frac: updated completely
- locl: added for Scedilla variants in various fonts
- numr+dnom: removed slash -> fraction
- OS/2: changed FSType to 12
- fontinfo: updated copyright; set IsWindowsBold false in Bold fonts
- features and fontinfo: updated trademark
- ordn: Added ignore 1-1-a.
- Added Euro.fitted by copying Euro.
- Changed Euro outlines to fit within tabular widths.
- Added support for Euro.fitted to various features: aalt onum lnum pnum tnum case titl
- Changed Euro.taboldstyle outlines to fit within tabular widths.
- Added code in 'ordn' to address 11th, 12th, and 13th.
- Added code in 'ordn' to address period.titling cases.
- Moved 'ornm' feature to be ordered between 'aalt' and 'locl'.
version 1.005 created 2000/05/17
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType compatible application.
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