I don't think my word art fonts are being embedded in my presentat

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Cherise Caldwell

I don't think my word art fonts are being embedded in my presentation. I am
currently using power point 2002 and I am coming across an issue using word
art. I have my presentation exactly how I want it, using my current
computer. But when I switch computers the font for word art changes. I do
have other texts on the same page and through out my presentation and they
all stay the same. Only the fonts in word art change. I tried viewing my
presentation on two different computers one in PowerPoint viewer and the
other in power point 2002. Both show the same problem. I also have emailed
the presentation to myself and opened on another computer.I have embedded the
presentation more times i can think of and still word art font continues to
change. I have used fonts that are originally from PowerPoint and fonts I
have downloaded, I still run into the same problem. PLEASE HELP!!! this
presentation is for a college portfolio. Thank you!!!
 
Cherise Caldwell said:
I don't think my word art fonts are being embedded in my presentation. I
am
currently using power point 2002 and I am coming across an issue using
word
art. I have my presentation exactly how I want it, using my current
computer. But when I switch computers the font for word art changes. I do
have other texts on the same page and through out my presentation and they
all stay the same. Only the fonts in word art change. I tried viewing my
presentation on two different computers one in PowerPoint viewer and the
other in power point 2002. Both show the same problem. I also have emailed
the presentation to myself and opened on another computer.I have embedded
the
presentation more times i can think of and still word art font continues
to
change. I have used fonts that are originally from PowerPoint and fonts I
have downloaded, I still run into the same problem. PLEASE HELP!!! this
presentation is for a college portfolio. Thank you!!!
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This is an issue for may types of programs. If the receiving computer does
not have the same font on it that the creating computer has on it the Word
Art, or even a standard text box, format may change. Ensure that you are
using a standard Office supplied font in Word Art or make sure that the
receiving computer has the non-standard font installed before attempting to
display the file.

Word art is a dynamic process and operates similar to a vector graphic. In
other words it will change size without creating "jaggies" so the receiving
computer requires the original font to recreate the art as required. As an
example, my company created a vector graphic company logo using a
non-standard font for the letters in the company name. When the logo was
inserted into may different program's data files (PowerPoint, Word, Excel,
Publisher, etc.) and then displayed or printed from a computer that didn't
have the font, a substitute font was used. Normally with horrible results.
The same will happen with Word Art.
 
LVTravel,

I have tried fonts which are native to powerpoint and i still get the same
results. When I bring power point up on the different system i am able to see
the font I want until I view the slide show. I understand if the computer Iam
presenting on does not have the font on its system my font on my presentation
will be replaced. But I understand thats what embedding is for. Its wierd i
can have the same fonts such as Monotype Corsiva embedded into a slide
presentation using a text box and on the same exact slide have Monotype
Corsiva as a word art, when shown on a different computer as a slide show the
word art Monotype Corsiva is replaced with a different font While the text
box Monotype Corsiva stays exactly the same. I am not sure exactly what I am
doing wrong.

-Cherise
 
Cherise Caldwell said:
LVTravel,

I have tried fonts which are native to powerpoint and i still get the same
results. When I bring power point up on the different system i am able to
see
the font I want until I view the slide show. I understand if the computer
Iam
presenting on does not have the font on its system my font on my
presentation
will be replaced. But I understand thats what embedding is for. Its wierd
i
can have the same fonts such as Monotype Corsiva embedded into a slide
presentation using a text box and on the same exact slide have Monotype
Corsiva as a word art, when shown on a different computer as a slide show
the
word art Monotype Corsiva is replaced with a different font While the text
box Monotype Corsiva stays exactly the same. I am not sure exactly what I
am
doing wrong.

-Cherise
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Since the embedded font isn't installed, only made available to the PPT
program for its text boxes, Word Art itself doesn't have access to the font.
The font has to be installed into the operating system for Word Art to use
it on the destination computer.

I actually made an error in my original post in that I said you should use
fonts that come with Office, I should have said come with Windows (Not all
PPT files are run with the Office program but use the Viewer which doesn't
install the Office available fonts.) That way, unless the computer is using
an extremely old version of Windows all the fonts will already be installed.
 
perhaps you could pdf yr presentation and run it as a full screen view
(similar to ppt presentation) in pdf reader as interim solution?
 
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