Finding Funny Font

[Guest]

I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?

 

[Michael Koerner]

Here is a place you can start.

Make sure my chosen fonts are available
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00256.htm



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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?

 

[Echo S]

Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the starting point, but...
it starts me quite a distance away.

After wading through this link and some linked links
I'm guessing that I could probably find the info I need in 4 or 5 hours.
Maybe I should refine my question.

Does anybody know how to find a particular (double-byte) font in a PPT 2002
presentation, so that I can replace it manually?
The "Replace font" function does not help me with this.

 

[Guest]

Thanks.
This is a nice tool and I'm very interested in knowing
how the roundtriping to HTML works - mostly because
my "one-way" trips to HTML have been rather disappointing
but this seems to return the "exact same" file.
Well, not exactlyly the same file - the password protection is turned off.
I'm sure that if I try it several more times - I can actually find that
damned double-byte font.
I guess I'm grumpy today because I've taken a recurring 3 second problem
that I can ignore, into a one-time hours-long problem that I haven't yet
solved!

Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?

 

[Echo S]

Here's what it says very close to the top of the link I gave you.

November 18, 2004
Roundtrip to HTML, including font replacement of double-byte fonts. Included
in the free Starter Set.


Hold down the Ctrl key while you click the ? icon on the StarterSet toolbar;
this saves your presentation out as HTML and re-opens it. Round-tripping can
cure some PowerPoint file corruption problems.


You can also use this to replace Asian/double-byte fonts with standard fonts
in your presentation. To do this, add the following section to your
PPTools.INI file:


[FontReplacements]
Count=3
Font1=SimSun|Arial
Font2=MS Mincho|Arial
Font3=Tahoma|Times New Roman


Count must match the number of search/replace pairs below.
Each pair must have a unique, sequential "FontX" where X is the sequential
number.
Each pair consists of: Name of font to be replaced|Name of font to replace
it with (two font names separated by a vertical bar or "pipe" character)



So I'd guess you'd add this to the PPTools.INI file:

[FontReplacements]

Count=1

Font1=Century Schoolbook|Times New Roman


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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Thanks.
This is a nice tool and I'm very interested in knowing
how the roundtriping to HTML works - mostly because
my "one-way" trips to HTML have been rather disappointing
but this seems to return the "exact same" file.
Well, not exactlyly the same file - the password protection is turned off.
I'm sure that if I try it several more times - I can actually find that
damned double-byte font.
I guess I'm grumpy today because I've taken a recurring 3 second problem
that I can ignore, into a one-time hours-long problem that I haven't yet
solved!

Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find

any
D-b

font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks.
This is a nice tool and I'm very interested in knowing
how the roundtriping to HTML works - mostly because
my "one-way" trips to HTML have been rather disappointing
but this seems to return the "exact same" file.

I suppose it's to do with the options chosen. There's nothing especially
magical that you couldn't do manually from PPT, other than the font replacement
bit.

Be sure to see the instrux for that here:

Revision history
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

Well, not exactlyly the same file - the password protection is turned off.
I'm sure that if I try it several more times - I can actually find that
damned double-byte font.
I guess I'm grumpy today because I've taken a recurring 3 second problem
that I can ignore, into a one-time hours-long problem that I haven't yet
solved!

Grab Steve and Brian's Starter set tools. The roundtrip to HTML will take
care of this problem.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/starterset/FAQ00002.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have one presentation that always tells me that it
cannot save my fonts with the presentation every time
that I try to save the presentation - very annoying, but
it eventually saves anyway.
I save the fonts because I use the presentation on several computers
and without saving the fonts - the slide can appear quite differently.
The offending font is Century Schoolbook - and I have no idea where
it came from, or where it is hiding. (I generally use Rockwell, with
an occasional Times New Roman - it must look like one of those)
When I use the "Replace Font" function - it always gives me the same error
message: "You selected a single-byte font to replace a double-byte font.
Please select a double -byte font."
I don't even know what a double byte font is - but if I could find any D-b
font
I'd use it then replace the offending text by typing it in.
Any ideas?