Calibri

Couple of updates on this:

I was asked yesterday what happens if you write a doc in Word 12 using Calibri, save it as 97-2003 format and send it to a 2003 user. Will they see the document in the right font? Just tested this and it must imbed the font in the document because it turns up in calibri in Word 2003. If you close the document in Word 2003 and open a new one though, calibri is not available so it was not installed.

Also in beta1 anyway, if you start a new document in Word 12, the default font is still Times New Roman. Calibri and Camria are pulled out at the top of the font list though. My understanding is that this will change for the released version though. If I find out more I will post it.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 21, 2005
  I assume "all characters" of the Calibri font are available when you open the document in Word 2004 like this, right?
  
  Did you use the old-style or new-style (XML) file formats for your test?
• Anonymous
  December 21, 2005
  the full font seems to be embedded. Also in the word options, saving, there is an option to always embed fonts either for this doc or all docs. There are also font substitution options under "compatibility". I saved my 12 document as a .doc (97-2003 format) rather than the new .docx (XML) format. At release the file compatibility kit will link .docx via the file extension finder web site to the appropriate viewer so that 2003 users can view the new .docx documents. I will publish more on this when I'm allowed to talk about it :-)
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  February 04, 2009
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