Yet another PPT 2003 embedded font question

[Paul_Berquam]

I understand that you can open an existing Powerpoint file with an older
version and either turn off embedding of fonts, or even replace them. I have
spent a bit of time on Google checking out all of the existing posts about
embedded fonts (rdpslides and powerpointanswers included)

My question: is there an easy way to find out which specific non-shared font
PPT2K3 is looking for on the local machine so I can simply find the original
font and install it on the machines in question?

We have a number of custom company specific fonts in use here and even if I
open the file and check the 'Replace Fonts' option (standard TT icon) or
check properties-contents the font 'friendly names' are listed, but nothing
more. It appears that the font is loaded and available on the machine, my
only guess is that there was an update or change to the font somewhere down
the line. It would be helpful to find which font file name or datestamp or
whatever it may be using to determine that the version of 'XYZ' font in the
PPT file is not the same revision as the XYZ font loaded on the machine.
Since I may be looking at hundreds of files, resaving each one is definitely
not a practical option.

Any ideas or suggestions anyone?

 

[Paul_Berquam]

Thanks for the quick response Steve,

I am getting just the standard TT icon and was wondering if it was related
to the 'undocumented feature' that you mentioned as well. Currently the list
of required fonts includes Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman, Wingdings
and our corporate font. After reading about the bug the first time around I
went back and checked to make sure that Arial Black was not on the list.
It's good to know that it only looks at the display name of the font for
comparison, although that must have been one HECK of an algorithm to write,
esp if it's broken.

As a side note, I checked through a few of the sample documents and
ironically I couldn't find our font even being used on a couple of the files.