Michael Adams wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:42:06 -1000 > Came this utterance formulated by david to my mailbox: > >> Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >>> Michael Stevens wrote: >>> >>>> Calibri I have but do not have installed all the time and use it >>> maybe a> couple times a month. And I've never heard of Vrinda. >>> >>> I picked up Vrinda after considering the material at >>> http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml >>> and noticing that Vrinda is the only widely available sans-serif >>> font where letters are small as compared with the font size. So it's >>> the best backup for Calibri, the font I'd really like to use. As you >>> can see from http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/vrinda-bengali.aspx >>> Vrinda was really designed for Bengali writing, but it has Latin 1 >>> characters too, so it might serve as a fallback font when you don't >>> need other characters. I guess the Bengali orientation explains the >>> large intrinsic line-height. >> Well, in my 20+ years of using computers, including desktop >> publishing, graphic and web design work - I've never used a computer >> that had either Calibri or Vrinda on it. And I used to be a real font >> junky! (That spans every version of Windows, Mac OS7/8/9 and OS X, one >> version of UNIX and several distros of Linux.) > > Calibri is one of a set of Office 2007 fonts which can be obtained free > with the new powerpoint viewer. > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri > It's use is expected to grow as uptake of office 2007, and this free > viewer, gets established.
Well, that explains it. I've never worked for any organization that uses Office 2007. (And I've worked for some very big organizations in the education, health insurance and health care fields.) I've never encountered a Powerpoint 2007 format file in the wild, so have never had any need for the MS Powerpoint viewer (OpenOffice opens the Office 2007 files just fine). I don't expect Office 2007 use to establish itself, but that's just my opinion. -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
