Office 2007 fonts on Mac

Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 install a new set of fonts - Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas. Office 2007 users often use them without knowing they might not be installed on other computers, resulting in strange behaviour and changed document layout.
How can you see you don't have them?
If these two lines look the same to you, then you don't have them:
- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
How can you get them?
Here is the official way how to download them for free anyway:
Go to the Microsoft Download Center and search for open xml converter. Look for the latest version of the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac (44 MB).
The inofficial way, for all of you who don't want to pollute your system with Micro$oft software, get only the fonts (6 MB).
For all the PC users, go to the Download Center and search for compatibility 2007 and then download the latest Compatibility Pack. If you don't need it and just want to use the fonts, you can uninstall the software, and the fonts will stay on your system.

Oh, and by the way, the real official way to get those fonts is to buy The Complete Font Collection - all 25 fonts for only $299, let alone if you buy them one by one only $35 each!


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