Palitino Font

[Guest]

HELP

I have a presentation that has been created using the Palitino font. This was not my choice of font, but the one my boss requires me to use. With that being said, I finished the presentation, and when I opened it back up to make a change, the font size had completely changed to a bigger size and was overlapping my tables and graphs. Even though, the document was skewed on my monitor, the slides I sent to the printer were fine. I assume that's because the printer contains the Palitino font. I decided to test the presentation on another PC in the office running the same XP OS and same version of Powerpoint, and it displayed just fine

Any clue why this is occurring?

 

[Sonia]

Do you have Palatino installed on your system? Go to Format > Replace Fonts
and see whether there are ??'s next to it in the "Replace" box.
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HELP!

I have a presentation that has been created using the Palitino font. This

was not my choice of font, but the one my boss requires me to use. With
that being said, I finished the presentation, and when I opened it back up
to make a change, the font size had completely changed to a bigger size and
was overlapping my tables and graphs. Even though, the document was skewed
on my monitor, the slides I sent to the printer were fine. I assume that's
because the printer contains the Palitino font. I decided to test the
presentation on another PC in the office running the same XP OS and same
version of Powerpoint, and it displayed just fine.

 

[Guest]

Yes, it has a ? mark next to it.

 

[Sonia]

That means that you don't have the font installed on your system.
Therefore, PowerPoint has tried to substitute the closest font available.
However, as you've seen, that has caused things to change in size and
position. You need to either install Palatino on your system, or you need
to use the Replace Font dialog to pick a different font and then make
adjustments.

 

[Guest]

Ahhh this is where it gets interesting. None of the PC's have this font installed, however some of them show it properly while others do not. What can cause this condition?

 

[Sonia]

I guess that they might have a font closer to Palatino, so there is less
distortion. The version of Palatino that I have says that it can be
embedded. You should ask your boss to embed fonts when the font is saved
and the problem should go away when it is opened on othere systems. The
font will be temporarilly loaded and used on other systems when the
presentation is opened.

See the following for more info:

FONT embedding
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm

Also, you'll want to download and install the free Font Properties Extension
tool from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/free.htm

Ahhh this is where it gets interesting. None of the PC's have this font

installed, however some of them show it properly while others do not. What
can cause this condition?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ahhh this is where it gets interesting. None of the PC's have this font

installed, however some of them show it properly while others do not. What can
cause this condition?
Newer versions of Windows ship with Palatino Linotype (a Palatino lookalike).
It might be that Windows is finding that and substituting it for Palatino on
the PCs where all appears well.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I guess that they might have a font closer to Palatino, so there is less

distortion. The version of Palatino that I have says that it can be
embedded.

Palatino Linotype, maybe?

I've never seen regular Palatino except as a Type1/PostScript font (which would
never be embeddable). But then maybe I've led a sheltered life.

 

[Sonia]

Yes. It's Palatino Linotype TT.

Palatino Linotype, maybe?

I've never seen regular Palatino except as a Type1/PostScript font (which would
never be embeddable). But then maybe I've led a sheltered life.