On 11/7/2010 6:31 PM, Damien Ellis wrote:
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... ;)
- Damien Ellis
Microsoft launched Office 2007 and Vista simultaneously via numerous
road shows in the winter of 2006/2007, so their new "C" fonts were used
for both Vista and Office 2007. Because I had signed up for betatesting
various MS releases, I received an email inviting me to attend a road
show a couple weeks after the North American International Auto Show
wrapped up their 15-day show some four-mile bus ride away. As a reward
for attending the morning seminars (there were two free meals and
afternoon seminars, too...), I would receive a gratis full version of
Office 2007 Professional and Vista Ultimate, plus numerous other
software packages. So, I went that cold February day...
Office 2007 uses two "C" fonts for its new defaults: Calibri (sans
serif) for text body and Cambria (serif) for headings (chosen for Web
documents, not print docs).
--
Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...
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