Font issue

[Scott]

I have a presentation that consists of Microsoft English font Arial and
Microsoft Chinese font. It displays on my computer correctly. However,
when I run the same file on other computer the Microsoft Chinese font
displays ugly. Can someone advise me how to present from such issue when
produce this type of presentation.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Scott]

If your presentation uses a font, that same font must be installed on
other
computers for the text to look the way you expect it to. If the font's
not
installed there, when PowerPoint goes looking for it, Windows supplies the
closest match. Depending on what's available, that may be very close
(Arial
for Helvetica) or it may be wildly different.

In some cases, you can embed the fonts your presentation needs into the
presentation itself.

Have a look here:

Embedding fonts
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00076.htm

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Steve,

Thanks for your advice that works well.

Scott

 

[Scott]

Glad to hear it, Scott.

One thing to watch out for, since you posted this in the Mac group also.

Mac PPT doesn't support embedding fonts or using embedded fonts.


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Steve,

Thanks for your further advice. It seems the problem in Mac is unsolved.
Can we install the Microsoft fonts on the Mac OS?

After a number of trials, I discovered that if the presentation consists of
embedded Excel worksheet, some letters/characters missed out if I save the
file with the option "Embed only the characters used in the presentation.".
I have to save it with the option "Embed all characters." to avoid the
missing characters. The first option increases the file size by 10% while
the second one increases by 10 times.

 

[Scott]

Not legally.

In theory, at least as far as I understand it (not a very long hike),
OpenType
fonts should be usable on both platforms, though.


That makes sense ... PowerPoint doesn't examine all of the embedded
content to
work out what characters might be needed.


You could make a second copy of each embedded Excel object, drag it off
the
slide or put it on another hidden slide then ungroup until you can select
individual text boxes. Then PPT will see them and embed the needed
characters
w/o your having to lug around that whole font.
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Steve,

Today, I tried to install VistaFont_CHT.exe (Microsoft Chinese font) for
Windows XP downloaded from Microsoft website on two English Windows XP Pro
laptop computers: one successful and one failed. The one to install
successfully can read the installation menus correctly while installation
whereas the one failed cannot read the installation menus correctly - all
garbles. Do you have any idea why it happens?

Scott

 

[Scott]

No ... can you give me the URL for the page where you downloaded this?

Do you mean the menus that the VistaFont_CHT.EXE program displays when you
run
it? Wild guess: the menus are in chinese; one PC has a chinese font on
it
and the other doesnt?


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Steve,

The URL is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5b42-48b4-8ba8-9293fdc72099&DisplayLang=zh-cn

Yes, you are right but both pcs have Chinese font installed.

Scott