Palatino™ Std

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

Hermann Zapf's Palatino, designed for the Stempel foundry in 1950, is one of the most widely used typefaces in the world today. Classical Italian Renaissance letterforms blend with the crispness of line needed for twentieth-century printing processes, and Palatino's generous width aids readability at small sizes. Although Zapf originally intended it to be a display face, the graceful and highly legible Palatino is a frequent choice for setting text.

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:

Palatino LT Std
Palatino LT Std Black
Palatino LT Std Light

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 Palatino Std: version 2.040 created on Thu Aug 16 21:20:46 2007.

version 2.040 created 2007/08/16

• Release for FontFolio 11
• Added 'ordn' reference to 'aalt'.
• 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 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.
• Added legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• 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 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 Turkish language lookup from 'liga' feature.
• Font character set does not support Turkish, so language exceptions for ligatures are not necessary.
• Also, Turkish language feature coverage was not properly specified anyway.
• Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
• Added small cap alternate for dotlessi.
• Added glyph: dotlessi.sc as duplicate of i.sc.
• Added dotlessi substitution to 'smcp' feature.
• Substitute dotlessi by dotlessi.sc.
• 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 small cap accent substitutions.
• Some small cap alternate accent glyphs which are identical to their default counterparts were removed from layout features. (The glyphs remain in the font for backward-compatibility reasons.)
• Removed redundant old style substitutions.
• Removed substitutions from 'onum', 'lnum', 'smcp', 'c2sc' and 'aalt' in which the alternate is identical.
• Replaced small cap ogonek.
• The small cap alternate of ogonek was smaller than the default ogonek. After approval from Linotype, the default ogonek was copied to replace it.
• 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.
• Changed PANOSE weight value from 5 to 6.
• Changed PANOSE weight value from 8 to 9.

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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