Fix OpenType text in PPT2007

[Guest]

I've discovered an extremely frustrating bug that occurs only in PowerPoint
2007, but none of the other 2007 office applications.

If I type text using a professional, OpenType font (such as from Adobe Font
Folio), PowerPoint renders it correctly. But if I size this font as 66-point
or larger, the text messes up as if the character spacing was negative
causing all letters to display on top of each other.

You can see a screenshot of this error here:
http://www.DJosephDesign.com/files/ppt2007otferror.jpg . The only difference
between the two lines of text is that the second is scaled to 66-point, while
the first is 60-point. Try it yourself.

This occurs with and without ClearText enabled.

I've repeated this bug on multiple computers, all running Windows XP
Professional (with latest updates).

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[Echo S]

What printer driver do you have installed?

Try installing one from here:
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/category.aspx?bcatid=1044&tabid=1 Set it
as the default printer driver.

I know it sounds weird, but it may resolve the issue.

 

[Guest]

I was hoping that this wouldn't be the "solution." And it wasn't. I even
tried Microsoft's own XPS Document Writer as the default printer. No
difference.

Regardless, it is still a bug that would require a change in printer drivers
for OpenType fonts to work, when they work in all of the other Office 2007
applications, and they've worked in PowerPoint before 2007.

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Daniel Lewis
Digital Designer, D.Joseph Design
www.DJosephDesign.com
Speaker / Presentation Designer, Answers in Genesis
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[Steve Rindsberg]

I was hoping that this wouldn't be the "solution." And it wasn't. I even
tried Microsoft's own XPS Document Writer as the default printer. No
difference.

Regardless, it is still a bug that would require a change in printer drivers
for OpenType fonts to work, when they work in all of the other Office 2007
applications, and they've worked in PowerPoint before 2007.

It probably is a bug, yes. But just to set expectations to a reasonable level
...

Echo and the others who answer questions here are volunteers, users just like
you, not MS employees.

We can help one another find workarounds for problems (a la the printer driver
swap).

We can make sure that reproducible bugs are reported to MS in orderly fashion
so that they can repro and fix them eventually. But only MS can fix the bugs,
and that can take time.