PowerPoint "Show"

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I have created a PowerPoint show that is used for training purposes such that
the employees at my work can access it on the network and view a self-paced
presentation. I have been asked to use a specfic font that is licensed by my
employer and thus is not available at each workstation. Because of this, the
presentation defaults to either Arial or Times New Roman for those without
the other font. I have heard that there is a way to create a PowerPoint show
such that it is completely self-reliant and does not depend on the individual
computer to supply fonts, sound effects, or even PowerPoint itself. Can
somebody help me out with how to go about setting this up?
Thanks!
 
Hi

Should be fixed by Tools->Options->Save->Embed TrueType Fonts. It will make
the presentation larger... More info available here:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00076.htm

Lucy
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MOS Master Instructor
South Australia

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Ok, I was able to select Embed True Type Fonts, but upon saving it pulls up a
dialoge box that says the fonts can not be saved with the presentation...

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!
 
khi HiDbLevel

I know that if you save your PowerPoint show to a cd, it will run
automatically even without PowerPoint. But you can not access it on
the net. if you are interested in this method, go to PowerPoint
file->package for CD

However, anther good choice is to converter your PowerPoint show to
web-friendly format swf, that is flash. Flash is samll in file size and
safe because others who acess to it can not edit. And flash has
Greater Accessibility and Compatibility. Most internet browsers has
flash player built in and computers with Macs, Linux, Solaris, HP, SGI
workstations can play the flash presentation. In other words, the
end computer does not have to fonts, sound effects or PowerPoint
itself.

For the conversion application to converter PowerPoint show to Flash,
you may have a look at PPT2Flash Professional at
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.php?sid=5
or PPT2Flash Standard at
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.php?sid=5

In this way, you can pulish the converted flash presentation directly.


good luck with your online presentation
 
This all looks great, but I'm not using the internet to distribute the
presentation, I am using a our own internal network, a shared folder. Is it
the same process for this too?

Thanks!
 
Is the font a True Type Font? I think it's the only sort that can be
embedded (and not all of those). Did you read the article? There are also
links at the end of it to more stuff about fonts - I'm afraid you have
already exhausted my knowledge ;-)

Lucy
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MOS Master Instructor
South Australia

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You can use package for cd to save to a folder instead of a cd, but I think
you'll come up against the same problem as there is an option to embed true
type fonts as part of this process too and if it didn't work before....

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
South Australia

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interested too
 
It looks like you are right. The copyright on this font won't allow me to
embed it. I'll just have to let my communications folks know that I can't
use this font. Thanks for all of the advice on this everyone!
 
It looks like you are right. The copyright on this font won't allow me to
embed it. I'll just have to let my communications folks know that I can't
use this font. Thanks for all of the advice on this everyone!
Click to expand...

It's possible to convert a PPT to a series of images and reimport those back into a blank
PPT file ... the images, created on your pc, use your special fonts but the fonts are not
needed on other PCs.

This is of no help if animations are important, though
 
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