Re: embeded sound stops playing on differnt computers

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I think that I have misinterpreted your first post. On the original computer
that I created the presentation on, there was not an error message when I
tried to save the presentation with the embedded font. I’m sorry, but I just
now realized that you meant the second computer that I am trying to play the
presentation on. When I tried to save the presentation on the second
computer, I did get and error message. It listed the fonts that should have
been embedded and told me that they were not installed. These fonts were:
Abadi MT Condensed Light, Bradly Hand ITC, Times New Roman Special G1,
Blackadder ITC, and Rockwell Extra Bold. Like you said, switching Times New
Roman Special G1 to Times New Roman is fine and will work, but I don’t know
what to do about these other fonts.

On the computer were the presentation is not working, I went to Format,
Replace Fonts, like you said. I got a question mark for Abadi MT condensed
Light and Bradly ITC, but the other three fonts were not even on the list.

You said that the best idea is to stick with fonts that are on all PCs. If
embedding wont’ work, then I agree. But the problem with that is that the
original computer that the PPT was created on obviously has extra fonts, and
the second computer that the PPT doesn’t work well on, I know for sure has
extra fonts. I also can’t just switch all the fonts to Times New Roman or
Arial because I rely on some of the fonts to look a certain way. Neither
Arial nor Times New Roman has the right look to its letters.

If embedding these fonts will not work like I would like it to, than the
next thing I will try is to find a list of original fonts (that are on all
computers), so that I know which fonts I can and can’t use.

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"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article <E7873037-C77F-4EE8-87AE-B70B47734A00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Smd2010 wrote:
the font was already on this computer that i created the presentation on, but
all the fonts on this computer are fonts that have always been on the
computer since i've had it . thats why i thought these fonts would be on
other computers.

Not necessarily. And, case in point:

the font i used was Times New Roman Special G1.

I had to scare up a copy of that font once for somebody's project but it's never
been on any PC I've owned. I think it comes with one of the MS reference
programs or the like, but no matter. The bottom line is that it's highly
UNlikely that it'll be on most PCs.

I checked
the box for embeded truetype fonts and i didn't see any error message.

OK, a good start.

viewed the presentation then on two different computer. on both of those
computers. the Times New Roman Special G1 became either Windings or something
similar while viewing the presentaion only. when i was editing, the font was
fine.

Again, please open the PPT on the computer where it's not working right, choose
Format, Replace Fonts and tell us what icon appears to the left of each of the
"problem" fonts. There are four possibiliities:

- A Printer icon (meaning it's a PostScript or printer resident font; not
embeddable, and not likely to be on other PCs; probably won't see this because
you'd have gotten an error message when you saved with font embedding enabled).

- A question mark icon (the needed font isn't present)

- A TT icon (the font's TrueType and it's available)

- A small TT icon (TrueType font, embedded in the document)

But this was not the only font problems i had with this. There were
other fonts that were used a couple times that also didn't stay the same
during presentation. To get around the problem i saved all the changing
fonts as pictures, and reinserted them into the slide that way. However it
bothers me that i would be unable to then re-edit those words and sentances.
I'm not exactly sure what else i can do to get this to work.

Probably all it'll take is sticking with fonts that are on all PCs, or at least
on the PCs where you want to show the presentation.

As another test, save a copy of the presentation, then choose Format, Replace
Fonts. Replace Times New Romain Special Gwhatsit with plain old Times New Roman
(this *IS* on every Windows PC shipped since 1990 or so ... your odds are good).

Since you haven't mentioned what other fonts you've used, I can't suggest the
best alternatives for them, but since this is just a test, try replacing all of
them with either Times New Roman or Arial. Then see if the presentation behaves
better on the other PC

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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