Packaging a Presentation to a CD

[Guest]

I have a very basic presentation - just using a MS theme for formatting, and
verdana as a font. There are no images, etc. When packaging this
presentation to a CD, the fonts do not display on the packaged CD version.

I have attempted to embed fonts at both the "Save As" and the packaging
options level and am at my wit's end.

Suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a very basic presentation - just using a MS theme for formatting, and
verdana as a font. There are no images, etc. When packaging this
presentation to a CD, the fonts do not display on the packaged CD version.

Verdana shouldn't be a problem on any recent Windows PC.

Are you testing this on your own PC and not seeing the fonts there or on
another PC?

If on another PC, does it have Verdana installed?

When you say "do not display" do you mean that the text displays in the wrong
font or that it doesn't display at all?

 

[Guest]

It won't display on my PC, or others. All of the PC's that I have tried this
on are modern Windows PC's, as well.

When I say "does not display" I mean that it completely will not display.
No garbled text, no odd characters.... nothing. :-(

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So the text disappears altogether.

Try this: Copy the file as-is to another PC (ie, don't package for CD)
Does the text display ok in that case?

And this: Save the file as a PowerPoint show, then quit PPT and doubleclick the
just-saved show's icon (do this on your own PC and on another one as a test).

Both of these tests cut Package for CD out of the loop. We want to find out
whether it's causing the problem or something else is.

 

[Guest]

Steve,

Thanks for the responses thus far!

I completed both of your tests, on two different computers, and in both
cases everything was great. The text displayed as expected.

Ricki

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Dang. Utterly weird. So it really sounds like something's amiss with Package for CD.
What happens if you don't embed the fonts when you package?

Can you duplicate this behavior with a very simple presentation, say just a couple
slides with text; works if copied, not if Packaged?

If so, I'd like to have a look at 'em and pass them along to a contact at MS, so if you
can make it work, email to steve at-sign pptools dot com

 

[Guest]

I have sent a test presentation your way!

Ricki

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have sent a test presentation your way!

Thanks Ricki. I think we have a winner here.

The problem seems to be a corrupted PPT file; sometimes a corrupted file can work fine in
some versions of PPT/Viewer and not others.

I'm figuring it's the original file that's corrupt, not the one produced by Package for CD,
because if I open the original in the PPT viewer, the text goes missing there too. That
seems to let P4CD off the hook.

So what I did was to open the original and roundtrip it to HTML and back (which tends to
clean out certain forms of nastiness). I saved that version off to the folder full of P4CD
goodness and voila, it opens and plays fine. [That'd be the folder containing all the P4CD
stuff].

Our free PPTools Starter Set has a tool that automatically roundtrips files to HTML for you
... http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

This explains how to do it manually:

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

I've added info about this problem here:

Text disappears in the Viewer
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00877.htm

How'd it get corrupted? Hard to say. Some oddity re saving from 2007 originally? I
noticed that the presentation thinks it needs Calibri, which suggests that 2007 touched it.

Executive Summary:
Mildly corrupted PPT file causes text to disappear in the Viewer but not in PPT itself.
Rountripping fixes the problem.

 

[Guest]

Thanks a bunch Steve! And, as an FYI, you were right on about 2007... my
boss runs it and has accessed the PPT...

Ricki

I have sent a test presentation your way!

Thanks Ricki. I think we have a winner here.

The problem seems to be a corrupted PPT file; sometimes a corrupted file can work fine in
some versions of PPT/Viewer and not others.

I'm figuring it's the original file that's corrupt, not the one produced by Package for CD,
because if I open the original in the PPT viewer, the text goes missing there too. That
seems to let P4CD off the hook.

So what I did was to open the original and roundtrip it to HTML and back (which tends to
clean out certain forms of nastiness). I saved that version off to the folder full of P4CD
goodness and voila, it opens and plays fine. [That'd be the folder containing all the P4CD
stuff].

Our free PPTools Starter Set has a tool that automatically roundtrips files to HTML for you
... http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

This explains how to do it manually:

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

I've added info about this problem here:

Text disappears in the Viewer
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00877.htm

How'd it get corrupted? Hard to say. Some oddity re saving from 2007 originally? I
noticed that the presentation thinks it needs Calibri, which suggests that 2007 touched it.

Executive Summary:
Mildly corrupted PPT file causes text to disappear in the Viewer but not in PPT itself.
Rountripping fixes the problem.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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