Phantom Font

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I have a short presentation whose properties indicate that Arial Unicode MS
font is somewhere in the presentation. It is not.

I tried to Replace Fonts to replace the Unicode MS font with plain, old
Arial - but I get an error message about trying to replace single-byte font
to replace a double-byte font.

How do I simply kill this beast?

TIA,
Michael

 

[Guest]

You can't replace double-byte fonts with single-byte fonts.
Check the fix here:
"Troubleshoot font problems"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00402.htm

Or

You might want to embed the Phantom Font, but the file size of the ppt will
be big.
Check this out:
"Embedding fonts"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm
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[Michael]

I don't want to replace the font; it isn't in the presentation. And I
don't want to embed the font; it isn't in the presentation.

I want to get rid of the reference entirely so future users won't get error
messages.

 

[Guest]

Check this out to see if it helps:
"This presentation might contain Far East (or Asian) text and formats that
PowerPoint can't display
"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00287.htm
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[Steve Rindsberg]

I don't want to replace the font; it isn't in the presentation.

Powerpoint thinks you're wrong. Perhaps you're right, perhaps it is, but the
point is to persuade IT to shut up about the fonts, yes?

So you really DO want to replace the font, if only to make PPT happy. ;-)

This:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00287.htm
explains several ways of getting that done.

You may not be able to see any instances of the font, but it's hard to tell the
difference between Arial and Arial Unicode, for example. Besides, all it takes
is one space character formatted in a font to convince PPT that the font's used
in the presentation. Not unreasonable, since in that case, it IS used.