While I haven't read the license for the PPT Viewer app, it probably only
gives you the right to use those fonts with that particular application, or
at least on that computer. I base this on the fact that the Microsoft
Typography blog
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/NewsArchive.aspx>announced
a few months back that these fonts were now available for
individual licensing via Ascender for $299. Here's the press
release<http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_06_07.html>
.

According to Code Style's font
survey<http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml>,
these fonts are only installed on about 30% of computers, so they're not
ready quite for prime time. I presume they'll ship with Office:mac 2008, and
of course as the installs of that and Office 2007 go up, using them will
become viable.

FWIW, sIFR <http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr>is a pretty cool utility to
get custom fonts onto your pages without relying on a user having a
particular font installed. It requires Flash, but it degrades very
gracefully. And it's accessible.

·Dave
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