Embedding OTF fonts

[.ep]

Hi,

Powerpoint only allows embedding of TTF fonts. I have paid a bundle for
OTF fonts. Is there any solution to it? MS' kb article on the subject
offers a comprehensively useless 'workaround' -- please use TTF fonts.
Well, great, but what about all the Adobe fonts that are increasingly
available only as OTF?

I know that there's a product like FontLab that allows conversion from
OFT to TTF, but they are making hay while sun shines and charging an
insane 180$ for the product.

My question-- is there a way to let Powerpoint understand OTF fonts, or
some free add-on for Office that allows this, or some free conversion
tool from OTF-->TTF? I have searched Google but I guess I may be using
the wrong keywords.

Thanks for any ideas!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Powerpoint only allows embedding of TTF fonts. I have paid a bundle for
OTF fonts. Is there any solution to it? MS' kb article on the subject
offers a comprehensively useless 'workaround' -- please use TTF fonts.
Well, great, but what about all the Adobe fonts that are increasingly
available only as OTF?

OTF fonts may contain either TrueType or PostScript font data.

It should allow you to embed OTFs that wrap TrueType font data but it's never
been able to embed PS fonts and apparently the OTF wrapper doesn't change that.

I know that there's a product like FontLab that allows conversion from
OFT to TTF, but they are making hay while sun shines and charging an
insane 180$ for the product.

That's a lot of money if it were only a font conversion utility. But to be
fair, it's a great deal more than that, even if the "great deal more" is all
stuff you don't need.

Do you only need to embed a few specific fonts? It might be more economical to
purchase TT or OTF-around-TT versions of them.

Understand that font embedding is not entirely a bed of roses in PPT. Well,
you'd sorta worked that out already, hadn't you? ;-)

But there can be other problems:

PowerPoint opens presentations as Read-Only, won't allow editing when fonts
embedded
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00637.htm

And while reading that, click the Next link and read the following FAQ as well