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Which word software did the firm use the fonts on.. because it was impossible to import fonts on just any random word pad..
Thomas Phinney
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Calibri reached the general public on January 30, 2007, with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista on that date.
Because Calibri immediately became a default font
with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista on that date.
Because Calibri immediately became a default font with Microsoft Word 2007, it has seen extensive use ever since. Preview/pre-release versions were available earlier, but not in broad use by the general public.
I have dealt extensively with questions about backdated documents using Calibri (and other fonts) in my
font detective work, including in a 60-page expert witness report that was key to
this Canadian court decision.
History
Microsoft commissioned Calibri, alongside the rest of the “ClearType Collection” fonts in 2002. Microsoft contracted John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks to coordinate the development of the fonts, while on the Microsoft side, the Advanced Reading Technologies group and the Microsoft Typography group were both involved.
Lucas de Groot was already working on the monospaced typeface Consolas for Microsoft in late 2002, when he was asked to submit a proposal for an additional typeface. He started from some sketches he had done that he had intended to use to design a typeface for TV broadcasting, and developed them into a prototype of what would become Calibri.
Although I originally thought Calibri first saw availability outside Microsoft in 2004 , further investigation showed otherwise. Calibri’s first external release to any significant number of non-Microsoft people was with Longhorn build 5048 on April 24, 2005, which was released to Windows software developers at the WinHEC conference. This was still before Windows Vista had even been named, and was still under the code name “Longhorn.” Three months later, the first Vista-named build, 5112, was made available to outside developers on 27 July 2005, but was still not readily accessible to the general public.
Various later builds saw wider but still limited distributions in late 2005, including build 5219 released as “Community Technology Preview 1” and given to PDC attendees on 13 September, 5231 which leaked on the internet on 7 Dec 2005, and 5270 which released 19 December as “December Community Technology Preview.”
ADDENDUM:
Windows pre-release versions are generally used by programmers and IT professionals to test and develop software. They are not broadly used for general office tasks.
I gather many people are using this post in a debate about a document produced by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, using Calibri and dated to 4 February 2006 (
How Microsoft’s Calibri font doomed Sharif family in Panama Case). Again: be aware that pre-release versions of Windows are not generally used for typical office documents; just because it is physically possible that Calibri could be in a random document dated to 2006 does not make it at all likely.
If you have a document:
- whose authenticity is already in question
- which was not created by somebody who is a likely Windows pre-release user (not a programmer or the like), nor a hard-core font geek like me
- and it is then noticed that it used Calibri back in February 2006
Then the odds are strong the document is a forgery.
Luc[as] de Groot, designer of Calibri,
has also weighed in on the question and agrees with me. He suggests that it is highly unlikely that the document is authentic; that if so, the people who created it should be able to point to other documents they created at the same time that used Calibri, and that he believes or assumes that this questioned document was “produced much later, when Calibri was the default font in MS Word.”
My timeline information comes from research conducted for my consulting on previous cases of backdated (forged) documents using Calibri. I made a variety of queries to Microsoft managers and de Groot himself, as well as consulting the official Microsoft publication
Now Read This: The Microsoft ClearType Font Collection by John D. Berry.
Sohail Khan
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Calibre font was available OUTSIDE Windows for beta testing in 9 August 2004.
What does that mean ?
That means when font was released in 2004, it was NOT included in MS Office because its was yet to be tested. Many fonts are created & tested by Microsoft but NOT all of them make their way to MS Office because they fail to pass the beta-testing. So was the case with Calibri.
After testing, Microsoft commissioned the Calibri & it was included in MS Office only in 2007. So if someone used Calibri for a official document that is dated before 2007, then that document is 100% forged.
In the case of Pakistan's Prime Minister's daughter Maryam Nawaz
[1]one can easily vouch that document is forged because no one on earth was going to download a random font from Internet, upload it to MS Office & then type the document with that font.
However, if one still persists on the authenticity of the letter, there is a another way to unearth the truth.
Just ask the law firm that typed this "letter" to produce the letters it typed for its other clients in same dates of 2006. If they indeed used Calibri in 2006, they must have used the same font for other clients as well. Verify those letters from the respective clients.
You will find the truth about this allegedly "forged" letter.
Footnotes
[1] Calibri: A Font that almost Destroyed Maryam Nawaz Political Career
https://www.quora.com/If-a-document...rged-since-Calibri-was-made-available-in-2007
