Adobe Caslon® Pro
Minimum system requirements
Windows®
- Intel® Pentium,® Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo processor
- Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista™
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- Note:
Fonts from Font Folio 11 may also be installed under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition,
and Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 if you install Adobe Type Manager® (ATM™) Light
4.1 on your system. If using a PostScript® printer on Windows 98/ME, AdobePS™ printer
driver 4.3 or later is recommended. If using a PostScript printer
on Windows NT 4.0, AdobePS printer driver 5.1.2 or later is recommended.
Macintosh
- PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- If using a PostScript printer, the latest AdobePS printer driver is recommended.
- Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may be installed under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2 with ATM Light 4.6,
and under Classic mode in Mac OS X with ATM Light 4.6.2.
History
William Caslon released his first typefaces in 1722. Caslon's types were based on seventeenth-century Dutch old style designs, which were then used extensively in England. Because of their remarkable practicality, Caslon's designs met with instant success. Caslon's types became popular throughout Europe and the American colonies; printer Benjamin Franklin hardly used any other typeface. The first printings of the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were set in Caslon. For her Caslon revival, designer Carol Twombly studied specimen pages printed by William Caslon between 1734 and 1770. The OpenType Pro version merges formerly separate fonts (expert, etc.), and adds both central European language support and several additional ligatures. Ideally suited for text in sizes ranging from 6- to 14-point, Adobe Caslon Pro is the right choice for magazines, journals, book publishing, and corporate communications.
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 Caslon Pro
Adobe Caslon 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 Caslon Pro | | [none] | | Adobe Caslon Pro Regular |
| Adobe Caslon Pro | | Italic | | Adobe Caslon Pro Italic |
| Adobe Caslon Pro | | Bold | | Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold |
| Adobe Caslon Pro | | Bold, Italic | | Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold Italic |
| | | | | |
| Adobe Caslon Pro Bold | | [none] | | Adobe Caslon Pro Bold |
| Adobe Caslon Pro Bold | | Italic | | Adobe Caslon Pro Bold Italic |
| | | | | |
On the Mac OS, 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) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with
many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®,
although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications
such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or
InDesign®.
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 Caslon Pro: version 2.015 created on Mon Aug 20 19:06:38 2007.
version 2.015 created 2007/08/20
- Release for FontFolio 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 '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.
- Moved swash "Th" ligatures from swash ('swsh') and contextual swash ('cswh') features to standard ligatures ('liga') feature.
- Moved "long s" ligatures from 'dlig' to 'liga'.
- Like more common ligatures, those involving the "long s" character should, by default, always be substituted. These ligatures were moved from the discretionary 'dlig' feature to the default 'liga' feature.
- Changed fsType value in OS/2 table from 12 to 8.
- Updated legal notices (trademark, copyright, and patent) 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 1.012 created 2001/10/09
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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