Bembo^® Std

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Minimum system requirements
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Release Notes
Known issues
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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

Bembo was modeled on typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius' printing of De Aetna in 1495 in Venice, a book by classicist Pietro Bembo about his visit to Mount Etna. Griffo's design is considered one of the first of the old style typefaces, which include Garamond, that were used as staple text types in Europe for 200 years. Stanley Morison supervised the design of Bembo for the Monotype Corporation in 1929. Bembo is a fine text face because of its well-proportioned letterforms, functional serifs, and lack of peculiarities; the italic is modeled on the handwriting of the Renaissance scribe Giovanni Tagliente. Books and other texts set in Bembo can encompass a large variety of subjects and formats because of its quiet classical beauty and its high readability.

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:

Bembo Std
Bembo Std ExtraBold
Bembo Std Semibold

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 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 Bembo Std: version 2.045 created on Thu Aug 16 20:23:22 2007.

version 2.045 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 legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• Added superior punctuation to 'ordn'.
• Added superior alternates to 'ordn' feature for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
• 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.
• 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 support for punctuation in arbitrary fractions.
• Added substitutions and contextual rules to 'frac' feature for existing small punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
• Removed 'percent' and 'perthousand' from arbitrary fraction substitutions in 'frac' feature.
• The inclusion of the characters 'percent' and 'perthousand' among arbitrary fraction substitutions in a 'frac' feature was disruptive in that these glyphs often do not match other fraction numerals.
• Moved punctuation from 'sinf' to 'dnom'.
• Small punctuation with the ".inferior" name suffix are actually positioned to align with denominator figures, not inferior figures. Substitutions from default forms to these glyphs were removed from 'sinf' and added to 'dnom'.
• Added superior punctuation to 'numr'.
• Small punctuation with the ".superior" name suffix align with both superior letters and numerator figures. Substitutions from default forms to these glyphs were added to 'numr'.
• Added punctuation alternates to 'numr' and 'dnom'.
• Added numerator and denominator alternates to 'numr' and 'dnom' features for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
• Added small cap alternate for dotlessi.
• Added glyph: dotlessi.sc as duplicate of i.sc.
• Corrected dotlessi substitution in 'smcp'.
• Changed 'smcp' substitution for dotlessi from i.sc to dotlessi.sc.
• Added dotlessi substitution to 'smcp' feature.
• Substitute dotlessi by dotlessi.sc.
• 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
• Added 'subs' feature, identical to 'sinf' feature.
• Changed name of uni2014.alt to emdash.alt.
• 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 1.047 created 2003/05/15

• First release as OpenType.

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

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