On 11/06/2010 04:19 AM, jonathon wrote:
a) Does a user expect an office suite to install additional fonts?
Well, yes. Office 2007, if I remember correctly, installed the Cambria/Calibri/Candara/Consolas range of fonts on Windows XP, which on release lacked the fonts. I think this was mainly because with Vista being released, a bunch of people would be sending out documents made in Calibri/etc, which those receiving on XP would not be able to view correctly. However, we might get this issue - people sending out Liberation Sans or Droid Sans-filled documents, with the receivers wondering why the document doesn't look right. Then again, if you're sending out documents where formatting is key, then you would use PDF, which embeds the fonts...?
I think, if you distributed ~20 or so fonts, it would be no big deal for space or for hitting that font limit. It could only be a benefit in the end users mind, especially if you add in the Droid fonts (which imo look the best), as it's a new set of fonts to play around with. Maybe we even might be responsible for making Impact or Comic Sans MS usage decline... ;)
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