That doesn’t look like Garamond. But in your PDF in Acrobat, if you go to File -> Document Properties (or I think it was something like that, you’ll find it), then theres a tab with ’Fonts’. If the font is embedded, it should be listed there.

That’s the odd thing... it’s just listed as Garamond-Book.... the document only contains this face and Frutiger... I don’t know why Acrobat is identifying it as Garamond... really confusing... but I agree, it isn’t Garamond, but I cant find what it is... it’s quite nice... Myfonts.com what the font thingy can’t recognise it either...

I think it’s Adobe Serif, probably standing in for Garamond.

- Lex

Oh well, maybe it is some kind of odd Garamond then. It does look weird. Maybe someone else can give a more definitive answer. :)

I have found that PDF’s substitute something called Adobe Serif MM when a font is not embedded correctly... so presumably I must have this Adobe Serif MM on my system somewhere... but it’s not available through suitcase or anywhere else...

OK, so after more digging, it turns out this is a substitute font that is a hidden part of the PDF system, and is used when the original font is not embedded. However...

Is there a font that is similar to it? It’s not too bad, and I quite like the forms! (there, I admit it!)

ITC Bookman is sort of similar to Adobe Serif, though the widths won’t match this, because Adobe Serif is automatically scaled to fit the widths of the missing font.

- Lex

The latin characters of Kozuka Mincho from Adobe are based on Adobe Serif. But I don’t recommend it.

It’s kind of perverse that this typeface isn’t readily available... I quite like the uppercase C, and the height of the slabs is quite pleasing... Just goes to show how unique fonts are when you look closely enough :)

Bookman is the closest I can find too... Mincho is close in some respects but just doesn’t look right to me. Ah well...

I wonder if anyone else likes the characteristics of the substitute font!

>Adobe Serif is automatically scaled to fit the widths of the missing font.
Just out of curiosity, how does that work? Will it be just distorted to fit, for example, a width, or will it be –the vector curves– “calculated” every time new and rendered then …