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December 11, 2007 12:57 PM

Font filter: Is there a way the Candara font can be used on a Mac? I need my PowerPoint designer who uses a Mac and my presentation person, who uses a PC, to be using the same font. Is there a way to do this?
posted by 4ster to computers & internet (10 comments total)

Try mapping to Albertus instead.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:01 PM on December 11, 2007

Candara is supposed to be an OpenType font. OpenType is natively supported on Mac OS X. I don't have a copy to test it out, but you should be able to just copy the font over to the Mac and use it.
posted by designbot at 1:17 PM on December 11, 2007

If you send the Candara font file(s) to your Mac-using designer, he or she should be able to open them and install them with no problem. However – this may or may not violate the font's end-user license agreement. I don't know all the details of Microsoft-commissioned font licenses.
posted by tepidmonkey at 1:20 PM on December 11, 2007

If you're using a new enough version of PowerPoint (2002 or 2003), you can embed the font file within the PowerPoint presentation.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA010348241033.aspx
posted by jmevius at 1:42 PM on December 11, 2007

Isn't Candara a ClearType font that was licensed by Windows, to showcase some Vista/Office technologies?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:05 PM on December 11, 2007

Yes. But "ClearType" refers to two things here: the name of the font collection that Candara belongs to, and the name of the sub-pixel anti-aliasing technology that Windows uses. The ClearType fonts were apparently designed to look especially good when rendered with the ClearType technology. The font files themselves, however, should be installable on Macs.
posted by tepidmonkey at 3:54 PM on December 11, 2007

Why not make it a large resolution png or pdf?
posted by ooklala at 7:07 PM on December 11, 2007

A five-user license for all the 'C Fonts' can be purchased for $299. Cheaper for a single seat.
posted by genghis at 7:35 PM on December 11, 2007

And that link is result #5 on a Google search for "candara".
posted by genghis at 7:41 PM on December 11, 2007

Thanks everyone. Licensing fonts is new to me, so I appreciate your help with this.
posted by 4ster at 5:56 AM on December 12, 2007