Re: Font Folio OpenType Edition

[Boban_...@adobeforums.com]

Poštovani Luka, pošto sam Vas našao na ovom forumu, a imam identično pitanje, molio bih Vas da mi odgovorite jeste li konačno saznali da li su svi fontovi u Font Folio 11 sa CE verzijom, tj. našim slovima.

Hvala.

Puno pozdrava,
Boban

[dan...@adobeforums.com]

Actually, Standard Adobe fonts *do* support Eastern European characters if you're using InDesign (they all show up in "glyphs"). Just checked it. When it comes to non-Adobe programs (e.g., Word), I can't get Eastern European characters out of Pro or Standard.

Dan

[Thomas_...@adobeforums.com]

"Actually, Standard Adobe fonts *do* support Eastern European characters if you're using InDesign...."

No, they really don't. That's the very definition of "Std" in Adobe-speak. The only exception would be Adobe's East Asian fonts, which use "Std" and "Pro" in a different way.

See my blog post here for more details: <http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2008/08/extended_latin.html>

Cheers,

T

[dan...@adobeforums.com]

Tom, I don't want to start a war, but I work with InDesign C3 every day in a publication that uses Central and Eastern European words. I assure you that the glyph map for both Std and Pro fonts includes German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Croatian, and Romanian character support. I tested it before I wrote the note because I didn't want to embarrass myself.

It may be InDesign that makes the characters available. Most of them seem to be there in a lot of Adobe Type 1 fonts that are pre-Std and Pro. But anyone working in InDesign C3 (and maybe earlier C series as well; I don't remember) should be made aware that East European non-Cyrillic characters are supported in most Adobe fonts, including BOTH Std and Pro.

Cheers, Dan

[Thomas_...@adobeforums.com]

Please do check the links I posted. There is really quite exhaustive information about Adobe font character sets there.

I don't want to start a war either, but as the person who was responsible for defining Adobe's character set standards for the last few years, working in Adobe's type group for over 11 years, the last few as the product manager for Adobe fonts and global typography, I am REALLY clear on this question.

It may be that in some circumstances you are seeing "font locking" or "font fallback" such that the missing characters are being supplied via glyphs from some other font. But I guarantee that there are needed characters for Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Croatian and Romanian which are not present in Adobe's "Std" western fonts. For example, Hungarian needs the O with double acute ("hungarumlaut").

German, however, is supported by Std fonts (as are French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and many other western European languages).

Regards,

T