Windows Vista introduced some new very nice fonts such as Candara, Consolas, Calibri, Cambria, Constantia and Corbel.
Here’s an easy tip that will allow you to install those fonts for free in your Windows XP or even Windows 2000 system :
- Navigate to the download page of the Microsoft Compatibility pack (MCP). The MCP is a free utility that allows you open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
- Click the Download button and download the MCP (file name is FileFormatConverter.exe)
- Install the MCP
- You’ll now will have the Vista fonts added to the other installed fonts in all Office applications
Enjoy!
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Cool tip. Stumbled!
Thanks for sharing. Let me try it with XP
neat! found this while stumbling, thanks Nirmal.
do you know if there is any way to get the fonts to work in other programs, like the GIMP?
Thanks Gili. I’m gonna try it out.
@John,
If you can get the font files, you can copy paste them to your GIMP application dir, which is probably at C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\.gimp-2.2\fonts and start GIMP. Fonts may show up for you to use.
Hey thank you very much for this help to the community thanks a lot!!!
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