Having dealt with so many Pakistani web/graphic designers and photo retouchers back then, I don't think it is highly unlikely at all.
There was such a competitive race to the bottom with graphic design work that I could have seen the Prime Minister's son, daughter or anyone in their network having had that font on their computer.
At the time of this trial, I always had to laugh about the argument and wondered if I could present this reality as a third party to the trial, but then I saw that like every Pakistani Prime Minister is brought down this way and realized it has no bearing on my life whatsoever.
Honestly I have never seen any drama from Pakistan that matched my expectations of due process.
The rebuttals and speculation are mildly entertaining, and the finality of their court garners no respect from me either way.
If the whole case hinged on the font actually existing in the wild in some capacity but the probability that it was on someone's computer at that point in time, yet some obvious to me possibilities were never even brought up, then all I can say is "lol, Pakistan."
Its not my problem that the defense never brought it up.
Shows a real lack of imagination.
"Actually we used to moonlight on Craigslist and routinely searched for fonts in leaked beta software to differentiate ourselves"
Now I'm being facetious.
But there are a lot of probable ways a font was added, ESPECIALLY for people that aren't good with computers. A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it.
"A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it."
Any mention of the existence of such a toolbar would have helped them some bit.
If the doc author was a font-nerd, that font would be none other than helvetica.
There was such a competitive race to the bottom with graphic design work that I could have seen the Prime Minister's son, daughter or anyone in their network having had that font on their computer.
At the time of this trial, I always had to laugh about the argument and wondered if I could present this reality as a third party to the trial, but then I saw that like every Pakistani Prime Minister is brought down this way and realized it has no bearing on my life whatsoever.