Use Windows Vista fonts in Windows XP

Or you can just download and install the fonts and say you did it this way.

Nice Idea, hehe. But you still have to get them from somewhere.

I believe the office 2007 compatibility pack also installs said fonts also.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

I tried doing this and from some reason the only fonts which are available from the pull down menu are: Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Courier New, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma and Times New Roman. I know the fonts are installed because they appear in the fonts folder.
Strange…

Kilman did you just drag and drop them to the fonts folder? if so you need to uses the install feature from the file drop down or else they do not show up.

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I think you may download and use them direct
from this links:
http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/calibri.zip
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http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/cambria.zip
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http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/candara.zip
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http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/consolas.zip
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http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/constantia.zip
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http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/07/corbel.zip

thanks for your response.
the problem is more general than this.
i have the fonts installed and i can use them in Word for example. the thing is that the fonts displayed in the drop down menu form a very minimal list considering the amount of fonts installed on my computer.

Download “PowerPointViewer.exe”, use 7-Zip or similar to extract it, then extract the .cab file, choose and copy the fonts you like into the Windows Fonts-Directory. That´s all.

I found a png font sample image with all the listed fonts

http://blog.html.it/immagini/msnewfonts.png

Here is how to install the same fonts in Linux:
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/calibri-linux-vista-fonts-download.html

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The download for the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007 specifically states this about the fonts: “You may not copy, install or use the fonts on other devices.” For anyone who wants to use the Vista fonts on Macs or Linux systems, licensed versions of the fonts can purchased/downloaded from: http://www.ascendercorp.com/ctfonts.html

Bill, IANAL, but in some cases the Linux or Mac may be the same device as the Windows machine.

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Hi this reall better, my mother have computer with Windows Vista, so burn all (windows\fonts on CD-rom , and make a map fonts.001. Than start Windows Setup, recovery module , Sign_ln , type cd windows enter, type reneme fonts fonts.bak reneme fonts.001 fonts
Do forget to export of Windows Vista this key regeditor HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
imported Windows XP.