Re: Multiple Garamonds

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From: Dominic_Hurley
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:02

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> which all look like the same family but ID etc thinks that the Bold faces are ITC Garamond and the regular/italic faces Garamond

Filenames mean nothing. What matters is the information within the font - the font names and the style links. Were all these fonts originally TrueType fonts or could some have been converted (badly) from Type 1?

> All are described as "Open type v2.0 28 Sep 1995" but have different file sizes. For example, GAR______.TTF is 82 kb, GARA_R.TTF is 312 kb and GARA.TTF is 193 kb. They also have different icons: GARA.TTF has an OpenType icon while the other two have TrueType icons.

Likewise, the file size doesn't say anything about the familial relationship between the fonts. An OpenType font with a large number of glyphs will be bigger than a TrueType font with fewer than 256 glyphs. And OpenType fonts come in two flavours - those with trueType outlines (which have the suffix .ttf and the "TT" icon) and those with PostScript outlines (suffix = .otf and the "O" icon).

> Explorer only shows the GAR_____.TTF set of fonts

Have you searched the Adobe common fonts folder?

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