Font Sizes change?

[Meridith]

Hi All!

When opening a PPT 2003 presentation in PPT 2007 it seems as though the font
sizes are increased or are at least a different scale? Is it me, or is this
true? Perhaps the Size of the slide shrunk?

I am using Arial Narrow Bold size 40 in the title slide and for the title of
each subsequent slide. I opened the PPT in 2003 next to a laptop with 2007
and now the lines of text are wrapped in 2007.

Is this a known issue or a bug?

Any suggestions or help would be beneficial.

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Hi Meridith

I'm going to make a suggestion that souonds kind of crazy but fixes most
font/strange layout issues: install a local printer driver. 2007 is very
dependant on the printer driver(don't ask me for any more technical detail
than that ).

How to install a local printer driver
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00605.htm

How to select a default printer
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00131.htm

Lucy

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi All!

When opening a PPT 2003 presentation in PPT 2007 it seems as though the font
sizes are increased or are at least a different scale? Is it me, or is this
true? Perhaps the Size of the slide shrunk?

I am using Arial Narrow Bold size 40 in the title slide and for the title of
each subsequent slide. I opened the PPT in 2003 next to a laptop with 2007
and now the lines of text are wrapped in 2007.

Make sure that Arial Narrow Bold is installed on both PCs.
If it is, then this probably is the result of a bug.

I'm not certain but I suspect the just-released SP1 may fix it:

Office 2007 SP1 released
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00914.htm

 

[Meridith]

Hi Lucy,

thanks for the strange suggestion, but it did not work. I installed the
printal local and rebooted, but the fonts did not change. Do you have any
other suggestions?

I did install SP 1 for Office 2007 and that did not help either.

thanks!

Meridith

 

[Meridith]

Hi Steve,

Yep, both machines have Arial Narrow Bold on them. The weird thing is that
in the fonts folder in the control panel, the ANB font shows up with the TT
(true text) on the font icon, but in PPT it does not yet all of the other
fonts do. Could this be the issue? And if so, how does one fix it?

thanks!

I did install SP1 yesterday and no help. Nothing changed.

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Hmmm. Ok. If you go to home -> editing -> replace -> replace fonts on the
computer where it's all gone wonky what do you get in the top drop down box?
Do any of the fonts have a '?' next to them? If so that means ppt doesn't
have that font (or thinks it doesn't from your answer to Steve).

Lucy

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve,

Yep, both machines have Arial Narrow Bold on them. The weird thing is that
in the fonts folder in the control panel, the ANB font shows up with the TT
(true text) on the font icon, but in PPT it does not yet all of the other
fonts do. Could this be the issue? And if so, how does one fix it?

That tells you that as far as PPT's concerned, Arial Narrow isn't installed.
And might well be the reason for the problem ... if it's not there, PPT will
substitute a different font.

In PPT, choose Format, Replace Fonts, pick Arial Narrow in the upper list box then
see if it's available in the lower list box. If not, the font's either not
installed or is somehow incorrectly/incompletely/incompatibly/making_one_insanely
installed.