Adobe Garamond® Pro


This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.

Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements

Windows®

Macintosh

Font installation

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Family information

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 OpenType font technology, Adobe Garamond has been reissued as a Pro type family that takes advantage of OpenType's advanced typographic capabilities. Now this elegant type family can be used with even greater efficiency and precision in OpenType-savvy applications such as Adobe InDesign.

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, 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.

Patent Notices

D327,902, D327,903

D318,290


Release Notes

For all fonts of family Adobe Garamond Pro: version 2.040 created on Thu Aug 16 20:18:10 2007.

version 2.040 created 2007/08/16

version 1.007 created 2001/10/09

version 1.005 created 2000/05/17

Known issues

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more.

Other resources

Online Resources
Adobe Type Showroom
Adobe Type Showroom - all current Read-Me files for our font families
User Forums




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