Finding Funny Font

P

Pdek

I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?
 
M

Michael Koerner

Here is a place you can start.

Make sure my chosen fonts are available
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00256.htm



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I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?
 
P

Pdek

Thanks for the starting point, but...
it starts me quite a distance away.

After wading through this link and some linked links
I'm guessing that I could probably find the info I need in 4 or 5 hours.
Maybe I should refine my question.

Does anybody know how to find a particular (double-byte) font in a PPT 2002
presentation, so that I can replace it manually?
The "Replace font" function does not help me with this.
 
P

Pdek

Thanks.
This is a nice tool and I'm very interested in knowing
how the roundtriping to HTML works - mostly because
my "one-way" trips to HTML have been rather disappointing
but this seems to return the "exact same" file.
Well, not exactlyly the same file - the password protection is turned off.
I'm sure that if I try it several more times - I can actually find that
damned double-byte font.
I guess I'm grumpy today because I've taken a recurring 3 second problem
that I can ignore, into a one-time hours-long problem that I haven't yet
solved!

Echo S said:
Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Pdek said:
I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?
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E

Echo S

Here's what it says very close to the top of the link I gave you.

November 18, 2004
Roundtrip to HTML, including font replacement of double-byte fonts. Included
in the free Starter Set.


Hold down the Ctrl key while you click the ? icon on the StarterSet toolbar;
this saves your presentation out as HTML and re-opens it. Round-tripping can
cure some PowerPoint file corruption problems.


You can also use this to replace Asian/double-byte fonts with standard fonts
in your presentation. To do this, add the following section to your
PPTools.INI file:


[FontReplacements]
Count=3
Font1=SimSun|Arial
Font2=MS Mincho|Arial
Font3=Tahoma|Times New Roman


Count must match the number of search/replace pairs below.
Each pair must have a unique, sequential "FontX" where X is the sequential
number.
Each pair consists of: Name of font to be replaced|Name of font to replace
it with (two font names separated by a vertical bar or "pipe" character)



So I'd guess you'd add this to the PPTools.INI file:

[FontReplacements]

Count=1

Font1=Century Schoolbook|Times New Roman


--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


Pdek said:
Thanks.
This is a nice tool and I'm very interested in knowing
how the roundtriping to HTML works - mostly because
my "one-way" trips to HTML have been rather disappointing
but this seems to return the "exact same" file.
Well, not exactlyly the same file - the password protection is turned off.
I'm sure that if I try it several more times - I can actually find that
damned double-byte font.
I guess I'm grumpy today because I've taken a recurring 3 second problem
that I can ignore, into a one-time hours-long problem that I haven't yet
solved!

Echo S said:
Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Pdek said:
I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find
Click to expand...
any
D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?
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