Calibri Font Looks Different
Dhoal Boudreau
When I pull up a document on the iPad that I created on my Mac, it always says "The font Calibri is missing. Your text might look different." Has anyone else experienced this? I can't seem to get rid of this no matter what I try.
I first had this problem with Cambria and was told that Word had some "behind the scenes" reference to Cambria and that I could install the font and solve the problem. I did install the Cambria font and the problem did go away.
Then several months later the same problem popped up, but now with Calibri. Nothing had changed and so I was determined to track down the problem. I started with a blank document and slowly copied portions of the original document until the problem occurred. The problem was a single word that was not in the dictionary. I added it to the dictionary but that did not solve the problem. I then simply deleted the word and re-typed it, that solved the problem!
Somehow that word contained some reference to Calibri. I think I have have copied that word (it was a foreign name) from someone else's email. Even though I had changed the font, there was still some reference remaining.
So I'm not sure how this helps me in the future. It was quite time consuming to recreate the document piece by piece until I narrowed the problem down to a page, to a paragraph, to a sentence and then a word.
This is very common indeed if you use Word or Excel and try to open those files with Pages or Numbers. Unfortunately even if you don't use Calibri on a MS document, Calibri is embedded and cannot be easily removed. Not much you can do as OS X does not install the Calibri font which is copyrighted by Microsoft. Pages expects fonts contained in Word documents to be present and produces that warning box about missing Calibri font as a result.
There is a workaround (in Numbers at least), which is a bit of a pain, but it worked for me. From what I can gather from the comments in this discussion and my experience, the font Calibri (in Numbers at least) is embedded in the tables, so even if you select all the cells and change the font, Calibri remains buried in the metadata for the table.
To work around that, I created a new, blank document. To determine which table(s) were at fault, I copied and pasted them into the new document one by one, closing the file and then opening it on my iPad to see when the warning would appear. In my case, I was able to do so without error with every table but one (most likely the original I created in Excel). I deleted that table out of the new, warning-free document (and checked to confirm that the warning didn't remain when I opened the file). Then within the original document, rather than selecting the table as an object, I instead selected all the cells within that table (this is crucial: this will not work if you simply select the table as a whole, as that will copy the embedded data). I pasted that data into a blank sheet on the new document and lo and behold, no error!
Open '09 document it will ask to upgrade to new version I choose "edit copy" the document opens, select all then change the font to Palatino save to iCloud now open new document in Pages on iPad. No more error message "The font Calibri is missing"
This is not a major issue but it would be nice to move as much work as possible over til Ubuntu so I dont have to fire up the VM every time i need to edit or send something. I need to be able to trust that it will look the same in all platforms.
First of all, according to the license you are allowed to use Calibri only when running Microsoft Office. Second, Calibri has been designed to preserve the metrics information only whit Microsoft Office, so the result that you get is intentional. Third, the free font Carlito is metrically compatible with Calibri but does not have the same legal limitations. You should configure LibreOffice to replace Calibri with Carlito (and Cambria with Caladea) to preserve the visual aspect of the document. Calibri is not part of MS Core Fonts, and is not available for Linux in any legal way. MS C-Fonts, or ClearType fonts, should be avoided as much as possible, even by MS Office users. Please have a look at the patents that cover ClearType fonts, and you will understand why.
First of all, according to the license you are allowed to use Calibri only when running Microsoft Office. Second, Calibri has been designed to preserve the metrics information only whit Microsoft Office, so the result that you get is intentional. Third, LibreOffice installs the free font Carlito which is metrically compatible with Calibri but does not have the same legal limitations, and you should configure LibreOffice to replace Calibri with Carlito (and Cambria with Caladea) to preserve the visual aspect of the document. Calibri is not part of MS Core Fonts, and is not available for Linux in any legal way. MS C-Fonts, or ClearType fonts, should be avoided as much as possible, even by MS Office users. Please have a look at the patents that cover ClearType fonts, and you will understand why.
Surely, they would be different. You should have the used font installed on Ubuntu. The rest is a formatting issue, you can copy the formatting rules from the office doc and configure libre office to look the same. It's all manual work as far as I know.
Recently I've been seeing many pages and blogs with some sour distaste for Microsoft's Calibri typeface, mashing it as if it was the new Comic Sans or something.At first I tought the problem was because it was Microsoft's default font for MS Office, but I've seen people saying to avoid it even in office-related works.
I particularly don't see nothing totally wrong with it, i mean, it works well, it looks nice, the roundish stems give it a refreshing "not-so-formal" look while still seeming elegant and somewhat professional.
I agree with some of the other answers here that there really isn't a problem per se and that visually, Calibri can hold its own as a default system font. Here are some of the problems I've had with Calibri and why I try avoiding it.
Since this typeface was originally commissioned by Microsoft for the Microsoft Office Suite products that specifically utilized their ClearType technology, Calibri's versatility with products outside of the Suite were less than optimal for quite some time. For example, Calibri was released in 2002 and only just found its way into the Mac version Office Suite in 2011. Google docs only adopted the font as an option in 2010. I've constantly run into issues in which Adobe Creative Suite has a hard time recognizing Calibri and will often populate files with uneditable, broken font links (which are practically useless). The bottom line, Calibri doesn't always play nice with applications outside of the Microsoft OS. As you can see in the image below, Calibri doesn't appear as an installed font on my own computer (Mac OS) even though it is indeed installed and available in my Office Suite:
There are some known issues documented with printing Calibri in various operating systems. In particular, when updating to a newer version of Microsoft Office. Errors include, not printing certain pieces of letters (e.g.; diacritic dots on is or js), not printing random full letters or blocks of text, and not printing at all. The solution is usually updating the printer driver but in some instances you'll have to jump through some major hoops to get it working properly. Here's one example of a more complex fix:
You chose to install the Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Indic, Thai and Vietnamese language files. This will require 10 MB or more of available disk space. The files will be installed after you click OK or Apply on the Regional and Language Options dialog box.
Subjectively speaking, there are many other typefaces readily available that will achieve the clean, sans-serif look that aren't the default. As mentioned in some of the other answers to this post, many designers most likely have a distaste for Calibri because it's simply chosen for them. If you want to get away from using Calibri here are a few alternatives that might sooth the palette.
Just like Arial before it, Calibri is the default typeface in Microsoft Office. Hence, anyone who doesn't care about typeface will automatically use Calibri. This makes anything that actually uses Calibri look amateur, as if no attention was spent on choosing a typeface.
This seems like a trend thing. since calibri is packed with microsoft office since 2007 on, it is getting a bit overused and people are grabbing it to put it in stuff not office-related. Calibri is also a clear type optimised font, so it is not exactly adequated for print i guess.
A few thoughts. Well, there's nothing wrong with it technically - it's legible, it's designed by an expert and it has a very full character set, so it can handle any challenge like obscure currencies, languages and math symbols. But printed out or on a good screen the rather high x-height (tall/wide lower-case) looks dreary - the lower-case looks a bit too big and there's not enough contrast between lower-case and capitals. (I find Adobe Garamond's x-height more or less perfect in the 12pt range - compared to that Calibri looks clunky.)
Also, the rounded stems do look a bit sickly-sweet. I also find the italic too cute for its own good with the soft curvy 'e'. For some reason I prefer it in light and bold to the regular weight. In bold it has a nice bulk to it and looks almost a little like Berthold Block.
I'm sorry, I don't recommend the use of Calibri font.It looks great, but it has a fatal problem.The capital letter i looks the same as the small letter L.You'll have problem when you type words like "Illusion".
The spacing of letters in Calibri is a significant problem. As an example, if you type the words "breakout groups" in most fonts, you see two distinct words. If you type it in Calibri, it looks like "breakoutgroups". If you check by moving the cursor right one letter at a time, you will see that there is a space there. So the poor kerning in Calibri is at least one of it's problems.
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