- #ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO MAC OS X#
- #ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO PDF#
- #ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO PRO#
- #ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO MAC#
Using OpenType's powerful layout features, the process of composing and fine-tuning text is greatly streamlined.
#ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO PRO#
As a greatly expanded and enhanced OpenType "Pro" family, Garamond Premier Pro includes extensive Latin and pan-European language coverage and a broad palette of weights and optically-sized fonts. On Adobe's long descriptive page for this gorgeous font, it says, in part: Since the creation of the Adobe Originals program in 1989, Adobe Systems has offered progressive new type families and cutting-edge type technology. I'd bet that most folks don't spend a dime on additional fonts.
I certainly would not classify this Garamond as "a font available to the general public" as if the general public would run out and buy it. That these fonts are suitable only for people who have one of a small I may have missed something here, but I have been designing classical Greek and OpenType fonts for years, and have a reasonable idea of what to look for. In Windows Uniscribe is insensitive to OpenType instructions for classical Greek, even were these to exist in the font.
#ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO MAC#
The font behaves in Windows as Mr Daix described for his Mac system. In any case, these are normally handled by substituting readymade glyphs from the 1Fxx area and the glyphs here are, or seem to be, defective. The font lacks the necessary zero width glyphs in the 03xx area for making up classical capitals with diacritics. I have also looked at the OpenType instructions, and can see nothing that applies to these glyphs, or to classical Greek at all. The glyphs mentioned by David-Artur Daix, which are all Greek capitals with diacritics, exist in the font, but they are drawn as plain letters without diacritics - though they do have iota adscript where applicable. I have examined this font with the Windows version of FontLab Studio 5.
#ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO MAC OS X#
It's a beautiful font design and I'd love to use it as my default font, but right now it's just too "buggy", at least when used with Mac OS X 10.4.7. Is it an Apple problem? An Abobe problem? An OpenType issue? Is it a problem with the way that particular OpenType font is designed? But a colleague with Word 2000 under Windows XP has told me he was experiencing similar problems when using the font. Since InDesign deals correctly with the font, it appears to be a problem with the way Mac OS X and its typesetting system handle that particular font. So the problem is limited to that particular font, Garamond Premier Pro (in the past I've experienced problems with Minion Pro as well, but currently that font behaves properly).Īs far as I can tell, the affected Unicode codepoints are: Switching the font back to Times or Vusillus or Gentium or whatever brings back the diacritics.
#ADOBE GARAMOND REGULAR VS PRO PDF#
pdf files to a new document, all the accented Greek capital letters are displayed and printed as non-accented letters in every program I've tried (Word 2004, Nisus Writer Express 2.7, TextEdit, PopCharX 3, the Character Palette) except InDesign CS2, which correctly displays and prints documents that use Garamond Premier Pro. However, when creating new documents under Mac OS X (10.4.7) using that font, or switching existing documents to that font, or copying the Adobe samples from the. pdf sample files provided by Adobe are displayed and printed correctly under Mac OS X 10.4.7. I teach ancient Greek literature and that font contains all the glyphs needed to type classical (polytonic) Greek as shown in the sample files provided by Adobe: I've recently started using the Adobe Garamond Premier Pro font.