Minion^® Pro

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Minimum system requirements
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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

Minion Pro is an Adobe Original typeface designed by Robert Slimbach. The first version of Minion was released in 1990. Cyrillic additions were released in 1992, and finally the OpenType Pro version was released in 2000. Minion Pro is inspired by classical, old style typefaces of the late Renaissance, a period of elegant, beautiful, and highly readable type designs. Minion Pro combines the aesthetic and functional qualities that make text type highly readable with the versatility of OpenType digital technology, yielding unprecedented flexibility and typographic control, whether for lengthy text or display settings. The full Minion Pro family contains three weights and two widths, each with optical size variants, and each supporting a full range of Western languages, including Greek and Cyrillic. With its many ligatures, small caps, oldstyle figures, swashes, and other added glyphs, Minion Pro is ideal for uses ranging from limited-edition books to newsletters to packaging.

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:

Minion Pro
Minion Pro Capt
Minion Pro Cond
Minion Pro Cond Capt
Minion Pro Cond Disp
Minion Pro Cond Subh
Minion Pro Disp
Minion Pro Med
Minion Pro Med Capt
Minion Pro Med Cond
Minion Pro Med Cond Capt
Minion Pro Med Cond Disp
Minion Pro Med Cond Subh
Minion Pro Med Disp
Minion Pro Med Subh
Minion Pro SmBd
Minion Pro SmBd Capt
Minion Pro SmBd Cond
Minion Pro SmBd Cond Capt
Minion Pro SmBd Cond Disp
Minion Pro SmBd Cond Subh
Minion Pro SmBd Disp
Minion Pro SmBd Subh
Minion Pro Subh

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.

Optical Sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point size ranges.

Please see Adobe Type - Optical Sizes for a current discussion of the uses of optical sizes.

This capability reintroduces one of the features of hand-cut metal type, which uses a separate font for each point size and is often optically adjusted. This is an advantage over the current common practice of scaling a single digital type design to different point sizes, which may reduce legibility at smaller sizes or sacrifice subtlety at larger sizes. The objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and legibility of the underlying typeface design throughout a range of point sizes. The adjustments typically made to the design to optimize it for different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between characters (letter fit) tightens, the space within characters (counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more condensed), the serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and the x-height gradually diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made. Smaller optical sizes are also useful when output resolution is very limited, such as for on-screen display. One might choose to use a smaller optical size design for creating text on buttons for a Web page, for example. These adjustments can improve the legibility of intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater change in design at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in design between Caption and Regular optical sizes, which usually have a difference in intended usage size of only 4-8 points, is often almost as much as the difference between the regular and display sizes, which have a usually difference of 10-60 points.

Although any of the fonts may be used at any size, the intended point sizes for the designs of this family are:

1. Caption: from 6.0 to 8.4 points
2. Body Text: from 8.4 to 13.0 points
3. Subhead: from 13.0 to 19.9 points
4. Display: from 19.9 to 72.0 points

Patent Notices

D337,604, D338,907, D508,943

• MinionPro-BoldCnIt
• MinionPro-BoldCnItCapt
• MinionPro-BoldCnItDisp
• MinionPro-BoldCnItSubh
• MinionPro-BoldIt
• MinionPro-BoldItCapt
• MinionPro-BoldItDisp
• MinionPro-BoldItSubh
• MinionPro-CnIt
• MinionPro-CnItCapt
• MinionPro-CnItDisp
• MinionPro-CnItSubh
• MinionPro-It
• MinionPro-ItCapt
• MinionPro-ItDisp
• MinionPro-ItSubh
• MinionPro-MediumCnIt
• MinionPro-MediumCnItCapt
• MinionPro-MediumCnItDisp
• MinionPro-MediumCnItSubh
• MinionPro-MediumIt
• MinionPro-MediumItCapt
• MinionPro-MediumItDisp
• MinionPro-MediumItSubh
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnIt
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnItCapt
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnItDisp
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnItSubh
• MinionPro-SemiboldIt
• MinionPro-SemiboldItCapt
• MinionPro-SemiboldItDisp
• MinionPro-SemiboldItSubh

D371,799, D497,175, D497,630

• MinionPro-Bold
• MinionPro-BoldCapt
• MinionPro-BoldCn
• MinionPro-BoldCnCapt
• MinionPro-BoldCnDisp
• MinionPro-BoldCnSubh
• MinionPro-BoldDisp
• MinionPro-BoldSubh
• MinionPro-Capt
• MinionPro-Cn
• MinionPro-CnCapt
• MinionPro-CnDisp
• MinionPro-CnSubh
• MinionPro-Disp
• MinionPro-Medium
• MinionPro-MediumCapt
• MinionPro-MediumCn
• MinionPro-MediumCnCapt
• MinionPro-MediumCnDisp
• MinionPro-MediumCnSubh
• MinionPro-MediumDisp
• MinionPro-MediumSubh
• MinionPro-Regular
• MinionPro-Semibold
• MinionPro-SemiboldCapt
• MinionPro-SemiboldCn
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnCapt
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnDisp
• MinionPro-SemiboldCnSubh
• MinionPro-SemiboldDisp
• MinionPro-SemiboldSubh
• MinionPro-Subh

For all fonts of family Minion Pro: version 2.031 created on Thu Dec 4 18:39:08 2008.

version 2.031 created 2008/12/04

• Fixed 'u.cyr'(U+0443) and 'u.short'(U+045E), in the Roman fonts.
• Added 'greekapostrophe'.

version 2.030 created 2007/08/16

• Release for FontFolio 11
• Removed majuscule substitutions from 'ordn'.
• Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
• Added superior punctuation to 'sups'.
• Added superior alternates to 'sups' feature for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
• Changed two ordinal substitutions in 'ordn'.
• The font contains both a full set of alphabetic superior letters and the two standard ordinals. In the 'ordn' feature, the substitutions from "a" and "o" were changed to "a.superior" and "o.superior" (from "ordfeminine" and "ordmasculine").
• 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.
• 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 glyphs "uni021A.sc" (Tcedilla.sc) and "uni021B.sc" (tcedilla.sc).
• Added glyph "uni0237.sc" (smallcap dotlessj).
• For non-Italic faces:
• Removed 'fina' feature with sigma.end substitution.
• For non-Italic faces:
• Added glyph "sigma.end" to stylistic alternates ('salt') feature.
• For non-Italic faces:
• Added glyph "uni0237" (dotlessj).
• For non-Italic faces:
• Added 'dotlessj' and 'dotlessj.sc' to kerning and features.
• 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.
• Removed numero glyph from 'ordn' feature.
• The 'ordn' feature contained a ligature substitution, N+o->numero. This was removed.
• 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).
• Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
• Changed Cyrillic glyph names.
• Cyrillic glyphs which had names beginning with "afii" now have names beginning with "uni", conveying their Unicode value.
• For italic faces:
• Added substitutions to 'locl' for Serbian alternates.
• Added substitutions to the locale ('locl') feature for Serbian language alternates: Substitute uni0431 (be) for uni0431.ital; uni0433 (ghe) for uni0433.ital; uni0434 (de) for uni0434.ital; uni043F (pe) for uni043F; uni0442 (te) for uni0442.ital.
• Changed non-AGL names to "uni" names.
• Any glyph names which do not adhere to Adobe's glyph name conventions were changed to "uni" names.
• Changed name of glyph "afii61352" (numero) to "uni2116".
• Changed name of glyph "idotaccent.sc" to "i.dotsc".
• For non-Italic faces:
• Added 'ss02' feature to 'aalt'.
• For non-Italic faces:
• Renamed glyphs with "uni" names to AGL names.
• Certain glyphs with names beginning with "uni" were renamed with names from the AGL.
• uni01FA --> Aringacute; uni01FB --> aringacute; uni01FB.sc --> aringacute.sc; uni2014.alt --> emdash.alt
• For non-Italic faces:
• Renamed glyph "Rholenis" to "Rho_uni0313".
• 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 2.015 created 2005/05/20

• Added five glyphs to ensure backwards-compatibility with Version 1.011 of Minion Pro: fi, fl, onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior. These are the five glyphs whose names were changed after Version 1.011 which are also hard-coded in Acrobat. However, in this release they are mapped from PUA Unicode values, not their original AGL values. (The real Unicode values are mapped to the equivalent glyphs with new names, e.g. one.superior.
• Fixed a problem with the previous release's Italic fonts, which excluded their GlyphOrderAndAliasDB files from gettiing used.
• Updated feature language tags to use new 'script DFLT' tag.
• Fixed an error associating language 'SRB' with script 'latn' when it should be 'cyrl'.
• Added a substitution, be -> be.ital, in 'locl' feature of all fonts.

version 2.012 created 2004/06/29

• Released four faces:
• MinionPro-BoldIt.otf, MinionPro-It.otf, MinionPro-Bold.otf, MinionPro-Regular.otf
• Added feature tags for language systems, to ensure correct feature coverage.
• Edited 'smcp' feature to remove a redundant i->i.sc substitution which was interfering with Turkish substitution i->idotaccent.sc.
• Changed final names to conform to AGL: i_j -> ij, I_J -> IJ (and related glyphs).
• Change in FontMenuNameDB entries for base font ('Minion Pro Regular' -> 'Minion Pro').
• Changed final names: Scommaaccent, scommaaccent, scommaaccent.sc, Scommaaccent.sc from their former uniXXXX names.
• Previous problem with missing hints fixed.
• New designed 'yogh' glyphs
• Duplicated '.end' glyph substitutions in 'aalt' to provide glyph access via character+feature input.
• Glyph (final) name changes:
• G_tildecomb M_uni0302 N_uni0302 g_tildecomb m_uni0302 n_uni0302 uni03DD
• An interim release with new glyph additions.
• Added glyphs to cover more EU languages: aringacute Aringacute aringacute.sc Aringacute.sc gtilde Gtilde gtilde.sc Gtilde.sc mcircumflex Mcircumflex mcircumflex.sc Mcircumflex.sc ncircumflex Ncircumflex ncircumflex.sc Ncircumflex.sc ymacron Ymacron ymacron.sc Ymacron.sc yogh Yogh yogh.sc Yogh.sc
• Changed final names to comply with naming conventions. Greek and other glyphs changed to 'uni' names.
• Changed 'swsh' feature to 'cswh'
• dded swash substitutions to 'aalt'
• Added fontwide 'SRB' language coverage
• Changed glyph names in Italic fonts:
• - Swash glyphs now conform to naming standards
• - Move *.alt glyphs from 'swsh' to 'ss01'
• - Move *.swash glyphs from 'ss01' to 'swsh'
• - Move *.end glyphs from 'ss01' to 'ss02'
• - Added swash glyphs to feature classes; now included in 'swsh'
• - Add swash glyphs to Italic kerning
• - Change contextual rules for swash glyphs such that isolated capitals now substitute
• - Changed glyph order of Italic fonts: Moved swash glyphs up
• Numerous glyph name changes to better conform to naming standards.
• Fixes to bugs, including script and language coverage.
• Added new Vietnamese glyphs to kerning.
• Glyph (GID) order rearranged
• Added two glyphs: palochkacyrillic (uni04C0) and zero.slashfitted
• Added feature support for new Vietnamese glyphs
• Corrections to some script and language coverage
• Changed feature 'xx01' to 'ss01'

version 1.022 created 2002/10/22

• Revised Italic fonts only
• Changed FontRevision number to 1.022; Regular fonts stayed at version 1.021 of previous release.
• Removed numero substitution from ordn feature
• Fixed outline interpolation problem in Gcommaaccent.swash (Bug Number: 544864)

version 1.021 created 2002/08/14

• Change embedding permission from FSType 12, to FSType 8
• Changed ordn feature to be in the non-chaining style
• (CnIt and MediumCnIt only)
• Rebuild with -fc makeotf option to enable contextual substitution
• Change TUR language tag to TRK
• Rebuild with fixed makeotf that uses the correct mappings to Unicode.
• Added Unicode overrides for superior and inferior figures
• Renamed glyphs in GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file
• Added European quote pairs to kern feature file
• Reordered frac feature to happen before smcp and c2sc
• Made changes in GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file:
• added missing Eth.swash T_h.commaaccent T_h.caron Rholenis
• Removed space kerns
• Remove duplicate afii entries in GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file
• Added copyright date 2002
• Change SC alignment zones and heights to fix l.c. hint problem with "p"
• Added missing swash characters to Italic kerning
• Added 28 arrow and check mark ornaments
• Added .sc duplicates for c2sc and smcp features
• Updated ordn, frac, smcp, c2sc, locl, and ornm features
• Change FSType 8 to FSType 12 in OS/2 table
• Add Medium weight instance fonts
• MediumIt 402 592 11
• MediumCnIt 402 502 11
• MediumItCapt 399 592 8
• MediumCnItCapt 399 502 8
• MediumItSubh 402 592 17
• MediumCnItSubh 402 502 17
• MediumItDisp 396 592 72
• MediumCnItDisp 396 502 72

version 1.011 created 2000/11/21

• Add missing feature.size files
• Fixed frac feature format
• Added missing substitution Tswash h => T_h.swash to liga feature (Italic only)
• Removed AEacute.swash in the font, it was not a swash design,
• it was a duplicate AEacute (Italic only)
• Made design changes to the all ogonek glyphs and lslash
• Added missing 2d substitution to ordn feature
• Added missing substitutions Tcommaaccent h => T_h.commaaccent
• Tcaron h => T_h.caron, and Tcaron.swash h => T_h.caronswash
• (Italic only) to liga feature
• Fixed problem with format of locl feature (Italic only)
• Added missing glyph Ycircumflex.swash (Italic only)
• Updated copyright field
• Added substitution be => be.alt to salt
• Added substitution hyphen => minus and numbersign => numbersign.oldstyle
• to aalt forced-ordering section
• Corrected substitutions in case feature, uni2219 => periodcentered
• and uni00AD => hyphen to *.cap
• Added substitution zero.slash => zero.taboldstyle to c2sc
• Added substitution uni021A => Tcommaaccent.swash to swsh and cswh (Italic only)
• Fixed w/t kerning pair problem (typo in kerning feature file)
• Added Ycircumflex to Y kern class
• Added various missing figure substitutions to aalt feature

version 1.007 created 2000/07/27

• First OpenType release with all faces

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

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