Garamond Premier Pro issues

[David-Ar...@adobeforums.com]

I've recently started using the Adobe Garamond Premier Pro font. I teach ancient Greek literature and that font contains all the glyphs needed to type classical (polytonic) Greek as shown in the sample files provided by Adobe:
<http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/GRPP/GaramondPremrPro.pdf>
<http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/GaramondPremierPro.pdf>.

Those .pdf sample files provided by Adobe are displayed and printed correctly under Mac OS X 10.4.7.

However, when creating new documents under Mac OS X (10.4.7) using that font, or switching existing documents to that font, or copying the Adobe samples from the .pdf files to a new document, all the accented Greek capital letters are displayed and printed as non-accented letters in every program I've tried (Word 2004, Nisus Writer Express 2.7, TextEdit, PopCharX 3, the Character Palette) except InDesign CS2, which correctly displays and prints documents that use Garamond Premier Pro.

Switching the font back to Times or Vusillus or Gentium or whatever brings back the diacritics.

So the problem is limited to that particular font, Garamond Premier Pro (in the past I've experienced problems with Minion Pro as well, but currently that font behaves properly).

As far as I can tell, the affected Unicode codepoints are:

1F08 through 1F0F
1F18 through 1F1F
1F28 through 1F2F
1F38 through 1F3F
1F48 through 1F4F
1F58 through 1F5F
1F68 through 1F6F
1F88 through 1F8F
1F98 through 1F9F
1FA8 through 1FAF
1FB8 through 1FBB
1FC8 through 1FCC
1FD8 through 1FDB
1FE8 through 1FEC
1FF8 through 1FFB

Since InDesign deals correctly with the font, it appears to be a problem with the way Mac OS X and its typesetting system handle that particular font. But a colleague with Word 2000 under Windows XP has told me he was experiencing similar problems when using the font.

Is it a problem with the way that particular OpenType font is designed?

Is it an Apple problem? An Abobe problem? An OpenType issue?

It's a beautiful font design and I'd love to use it as my default font, but right now it's just too "buggy", at least when used with Mac OS X 10.4.7.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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David-Artur Daix
Centre d'Études Anciennes
Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité
École Normale Supérieure
45 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05
<http://www.antiquite.ens.fr/index.html>
<http://www.greektranscoder.org>

[Thomas_...@adobeforums.com]

I think this is being discussed at great length in the Typography forum, which is a good place for it, as it is not a Mac-specific issue.

When I'm back in the office, I may comment on it at more length.

Regards,

T

[ac]

On Jul 10, 2006, David-Ar...@adobeforums.com wrote
(in article <3bc0d...@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI>):

Tex & latex Handle Greek from install and it is free. For mac it is called
MacTex.