2009/3/15 Michael Adams <linux_m...@paradise.net.nz>: > 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. > Thanks for posting that link.
I'm writing from an XP laptop here - no Calibri installed - when I get Word documents sent me using Calibri I see a gothic font in Open Office. - which can sometimes be amusing - but is most definitely probably not what was intended. Regards L. ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
