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Roland5D6D
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November 23, 2024
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I need certain glyphs...

  • November 23, 2024
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When transliterating from an oriental language, i need some glyphs which are recognized by Unicode and some other vendors but not Adobe (Adobe Garamond Pro for example)  Ḍ ḍ Ḥ ḥ Ḳ ḳ Ṣ ṣ Ṭ ṭ Ẓ ẓ

Also other renderings are needed...

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    Tarun Saini
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    Tarun SainiCommunity Manager
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    December 3, 2024

    Hi @Roland5D6D,

     

    Welcome to the community! Thanks for the comments. There aren't any immediate plans to expand the language support for Adobe Garamond, but I have shared that with the team. Also, if you'd like to consider another Adobe Original family, Minion 3 contains the language support that you need- https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/minion-3.

     

    For specific hyphenation needs, check if your software supports custom definitions. For instance, InDesign offers this feature through its settings and custom dictionaries.

    1. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/text-composition.html
    2. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/add_cs_dictionaries.html 

     

    Best, 

    Tarun

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    MarcStuessel
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    December 24, 2024

    Hi @Tarun Saini 

     

    I had the same issue and I would like to express my support for @Roland5D6D 's suggestion.
    You are right, Minion 3 does support these glyphs (Roland's list should also include U+02BE (Modifier Letter Right Half Ring) and U+02BF (Modifier Letter Left Half Ring) btw ) and I switched over to Minion 3 in the end.

     

    Since I use Garamond Premier as OTF files (i.e. not synchronised via CreativeCloud), I tried to include these glyphs myself as an exercise. It's technically possible, but enormously time-consuming - I'm neither a Fontlab specialist, nor a Font designer, and the learning curve is steep. It was actually factor "time" that made me switch to Minion 3.

     

    The question is, does Adobe have a roadmap for expansions or technical innovations for older existing products?
    Garamond Premier Pro IIRC is from 2004. My difficulties with these additional glyphs were partly due to changes from the last 20 years (eg in the way Fontlab handles smcp glyphs. Which might or might not be a Fontlab implementation issue - I don't know).

     

    By the way, a new edition would be a good opportunity to tidy up the Garamond Premier Pro Private Use Area, which in my opinion is somewhat extensive. For example, why are there omega.sc U+E31C, omega.sc U+E316, omega.sc U+E317, omega.sc U+E318, omega.sc U+E319, omega.sc U+E31A, omega.sc U+E31D and omega.sc U+E43B, etc.?

     

    Happy New Year

    Marc

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