Embeded font in PowerPoint keeps file from being edited

[Guest]

I have a power point (.ppt) file that I needs to be edited. But the person
that originally built it embeded the fonts into the file. Original file is
nowhere to be found. And the person that built it is long since gone. I
don't have a problem in completely rebuilding it. Is there a way to drag
the pictures off of the file so that I can reuse them, vice spending two days
searching for new pictures?????????

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a power point (.ppt) file that I needs to be edited. But the person
that originally built it embeded the fonts into the file. Original file is
nowhere to be found. And the person that built it is long since gone. I
don't have a problem in completely rebuilding it. Is there a way to drag
the pictures off of the file so that I can reuse them, vice spending two days
searching for new pictures?????????

Are you positive you don't have a copy of the missing font somewhere? If the
embedded font is installed on your PC, PPT will use it, the file will be
editable and you can save it again w/o embedded fonts. Two minutes work instead
of two days.

Check Format, Replace fonts - any font with a little tiny TT icon rather than
the usual large TT icon is an embedded one.

 

[Echo S]

In addition to Steve's suggestion, if you can locate a machine that has PPT
97, 2000 or 2002 (in other words, just not PPT 2003) on it, you can open the
file, do a Format/Replace Fonts, and save the file. Then it will open and be
editable in PPT 2003 also.

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys. I wished I had the original file. Slide show is 116 slides
long. It has been a long day messing around with MM Fireworks, creating
copies of the graphics. I tried the "Replace Fonts" utility, but it did not
work. Hopefully, I will finish the graphics tomorrow afternoon.

tony

 

[Echo S]

It sounds as if maybe you're working on a presentation that's now a series
of images as opposed to just a presentation that uses a font embedded via
PPT's native "embed fonts" capabilities.

If that's the case then no, the "replace fonts" thing won't work and you're
right, you'd need the original file in order to edit it.

 

[Guest]

Echo,

Yep, hopefully I wil be done today with regenerating the graphics. That
way, after I finish this contract with the FAA, someone else will be able to
edit the slide-show as curriculum changes.

Thanks for your help.

tony

It sounds as if maybe you're working on a presentation that's now a series
of images as opposed to just a presentation that uses a font embedded via
PPT's native "embed fonts" capabilities.

If that's the case then no, the "replace fonts" thing won't work and you're
right, you'd need the original file in order to edit it.

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

Thanks guys. I wished I had the original file. Slide show is 116 slides
long. It has been a long day messing around with MM Fireworks, creating
copies of the graphics. I tried the "Replace Fonts" utility, but it did not
work. Hopefully, I will finish the graphics tomorrow afternoon.

tony