When a presentation is saved, some fonts may be embedded. Your situation
would suggest that they were not.
On my machine I have 6 versions of Arial fonts. While Arial fonts are
installed on most machines, the version that was used in your presentation
may not have been. If the EXACT font is not available on the machine that
is receiving the presentation, than PowerPoint makes a 'best guess' as to
the correct font to use. My experience is that it usually guesses wrong.
To fix it on the receiving machine click the following sequence: Format =>
Replace Fonts => Wingdings / Arial. This will work as long as there were no
wingding font characters used in the original presentation. If there were,
you will need to go back and restore them manually after changing the rest
of the text via replace fonts tool.
To fix this on the sending machine, try to embed the version of Arial that
is being used by clicking: File => Save As => Tools (pulldown in upper right
corner) => (check) Embed TrueType Fonts. You can also replace the Arial
font with a different font and see if this one carries over to the other
machine better.
It is also possible that the source show is starting to become a little
corrupt. We aren't talking politician corrupt, just a little. Make sure
the basics are covered and round trip the presentation thru HTML to clean it
up a bit.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00526.htm
Because of this and a few other issues, the portability of a presentation
should always be tested on multiple machines/versions before taking a show
on the road.
--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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