Aldus™ Std

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

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.

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

History

Hermann Zapf designed Aldus for the Stempel foundry in 1954 as a companion to his Palatino typefaces. Originally designed as a display typeface, Palatino gained popularity as a text typeface as well. Believing Palatino to be too bold for settings at small point sizes, Zapf designed the lighter weight Aldus to better suit text settings. The typeface is named for Aldus Manutius, the innovative fifteenth-century Italian printer/publisher.

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 are not shown, and 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:

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

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 weight which has no style-linked variant or is itself a style-linked variant, and then additionally 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 Aldus Std: version 2.055 created on Thu Aug 16 20:20:35 2007.

version 2.055 created 2007/08/16

• Release for FontFolio 11
• Removed majuscule substitutions from 'ordn'.
• Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
• Removed majuscule substitutions from 'sups'.
• Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
• Added superior alternates for lowercase a and o.
• Added glyphs: a.superior as duplicate of ordfeminine; o.superior as duplicate of ordmasculine.
• Changed substitutions in 'ordn' and 'sups' from ordinals to these new alternates.
• Added legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• Added legacy f-ligature characters.
• Added glyphs: fi as duplicate of f_i; fl as duplicate of f_l.
• Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
• Removed redundant small cap substitutions.
• Removed substitutions from 'smcp' and 'c2sc' in which the alternate is identical: ampersand, exclam, question, exclamdown, questiondown.
• Mostly found in Linotype expert fonts, with old style currency glyphs and small cap punctuation.
• Renamed small cap f-ligatures.
• Fonts only need small cap alternates for single-character, legacy f-ligatures, fi and fl.
• Renamed glyphs: f_i.sc to fi.sc; f_l.sc to fl.sc
• Removed redundant old style substitutions.
• Removed substitutions from 'onum', 'lnum', 'smcp', 'c2sc' and 'aalt' in which the alternate is identical.
• 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 1.040 created 2002/10/12

• First release as OpenType.

• Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.

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Online Resources
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