Could someone who has Adobe Garamond or Adobe Arno and Microsoft Word possibly have a look as to whether the Insert Symbol facility of Microsoft Word offers the alternate glyphs of the font please?
William Overington
15 August 2008
Can Microsoft Word access alternate glyphs of Adobe fonts?
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Mixed results
I tried Adobe Arno Pro.otf and nothing beyond 00FF (small letter y with diaeresis) was visible with Insert Symbol. The font had 1009 glyphs.
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Thank you trying the experiment.Dick Pape wrote:I tried Adobe Arno Pro.otf and nothing beyond 00FF (small letter y with diaeresis) was visible with Insert Symbol. The font had 1009 glyphs.
I am surprised at the result.
What do you get with Times New Roman and Arial please?
Some readers might like to have a look at the glyph complement of Adobe Arno Pro.
http://store1.adobe.com/type/browser/pd ... egular.pdf
There are various alternate glyphs, yet there are also many regular glyphs from after U+00FF.
I use Word 97, which has been here for about ten years now: with Times New Roman and Arial, Insert Symbol can be used to insert accented characters from beyond U+00FF.
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A successful test
Times New Roman and Arial work fine for me-- can see the entire character set and therefore select any of them.
I tried a TTF of Arno Pro (OTF saved via FC) and it worked as expected -- could see all glyphs.
The ArnoPro OTF shows up in MS Word (2002) drop menu with a different icon (some sort of shaded rectangle) than the other fonts which show a TT symbol. Maybe Microsoft doesn't "do" Adobe?
I tried a TTF of Arno Pro (OTF saved via FC) and it worked as expected -- could see all glyphs.
The ArnoPro OTF shows up in MS Word (2002) drop menu with a different icon (some sort of shaded rectangle) than the other fonts which show a TT symbol. Maybe Microsoft doesn't "do" Adobe?