Opentype font

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Sorry for the confusion
I used "Ariel" because I was not sure it was Arial
It was just not Challenge Extra Bold Std.
 
Gents, not sure I fully understand what your conversation was about,
but while waiting for Font.com to respond I re-read
www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00076.htm
and installed Microsoft's TrueType font properties extension.
(when I installed it it said OpenType Properties??)

I looked at the Properties-CharSet/Unicode tab for the infamous font
and the only Supported Code Page is Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)

Is this significant to my problem??

Regards
Phil
 
Steve Rindsberg said:
Seriously though, what problems did you have with the OTF font at your
end?

PhilbillDick, not ignoring you, just collecting more info.
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It doesn't show up when slides are uploaded to a web app. (Can't remember if
it's WebEx or LiveMeeting.)

Of course they're fine when you application share, but not when you upload.
I don't know if all *.otf extension OTF fonts would work this way or not but
I'm happy to try to do some tests.

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Steve Rindsberg said:
The text doesn't show up at all or the text appears in some other font?


It may be an embedding issue ... as in "TT fonts will embed, T1/PS ones
won't".

Might be interesting to include an OTF of each flavor and see what
happens.
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Appears in another font -- Arial, I believe.

I don't think embedding is set in the presentation at all, although yeah, I
figured it was probably either something to do with postscript or it was
related to embedding permissions in the font itself . I also don't know what
happens when you upload if you use a nonstandard TT font -- "chiller" or
something, for example.

Yes, it would be good to try. I'd like to get a couple of commercial fonts
in each flavor to test with. I'm not confident that this proprietary
"designed-for-them" font is really a good test.

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I looked at the Properties-CharSet/Unicode tab for the infamous font
and the only Supported Code Page is Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)

Is this significant to my problem??
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I know enough to say that I'm surprised, but not enough to say that it's a
problem. A properly constructed Type 1-flavored OTF is cross-platform.
 
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