"Read Only" Message Upon Opening PowerPoint

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I am getting a message upon opening PowerPoint, "The presentation cannot be
edited because it contains read-only embedded font." I recently loaded
ServicePack2 and have to believe it to be related. My presentations are
quite lengthy and the prospect of having to re-do them is frightening! Any
assistance is genuinely appreciated.
 
Sonia, your message was most helpful and appreciated...thank you. I created
the presentation but used some fonts from a third party disk I purchased.
The fonts are loaded on my PC. I'm having difficulty understanding how I
determine what font(s) caused the problem and why I can't save what I created
and paid for. Any suggestions in identifying the culprit font and ways to
still pull this out are most appreciated.
 
Open the file as "read only" on your system. Then go to Format/Replace
Fonts. Do you see ?? beside any of the fonts in the top pull-down box? If
so, those are the culprits.

If you have another version of PPT available anywhere, you can open the file
in it and replace the problem fonts in the Format/Replace Fonts dialog with
something standard (Arial, Times New Roman are the very basic standards that
should be available on 99.99% of PCs out there). Or you can simply unimbed
the fonts, which is probably a better solution since the fonts are installed
on yoru PC.

However, it is definitely odd that those fonts are loaded on your computer,
but you're still receiving the "read only" error. Does your presentation use
Arial Black by any chance? That's been identified as a problem -- I'd call
it a bug, actually. For some reason that I cannot remember, if Arial Black
has been embedded into a presentation, you'll get the "read only" thing in
PPT 2003 even if Arial Black is installed on the system. Only solution I
know is to open the file in a previous version of PPT and unimbed the fonts.

I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you. I find it one of the most
*incredibly frustrating* problems...
 
It's not due to Windows XP SP 2.
Click to expand...

But what's the current SP for Office 2002/XP?
Doesn't that apply the same [spit] "font embedding improvements" as were
foisted on us in PPT 2003?

See:
 
I think instead of ?? you should look for an icon that looks like a page with
two small "T"s on it, as opposed to the larger "TT" that usually appears next to
truetype fonts. At least that's what I see here. I think that you'll see ??
when the font is not embedded and is not found on the system at all.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

Echo S said:
Open the file as "read only" on your system. Then go to Format/Replace
Fonts. Do you see ?? beside any of the fonts in the top pull-down box? If
so, those are the culprits.

If you have another version of PPT available anywhere, you can open the file
in it and replace the problem fonts in the Format/Replace Fonts dialog with
something standard (Arial, Times New Roman are the very basic standards that
should be available on 99.99% of PCs out there). Or you can simply unimbed
the fonts, which is probably a better solution since the fonts are installed
on yoru PC.

However, it is definitely odd that those fonts are loaded on your computer,
but you're still receiving the "read only" error. Does your presentation use
Arial Black by any chance? That's been identified as a problem -- I'd call
it a bug, actually. For some reason that I cannot remember, if Arial Black
has been embedded into a presentation, you'll get the "read only" thing in
PPT 2003 even if Arial Black is installed on the system. Only solution I
know is to open the file in a previous version of PPT and unimbed the fonts.

I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you. I find it one of the most
*incredibly frustrating* problems...

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

jon said:
Sonia, your message was most helpful and appreciated...thank you. I created
the presentation but used some fonts from a third party disk I purchased.
The fonts are loaded on my PC. I'm having difficulty understanding how I
determine what font(s) caused the problem and why I can't save what I created
and paid for. Any suggestions in identifying the culprit font and ways to
still pull this out are most appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Ah, thanks for that correction, Sonia. I'll have to find a presentation with
this problem and take a closer look at those icons!
 
I'm pretty sure that was Office XP SP 3, but I can't prove it. Well, I probably
could if I had time to install PowerPoint 2002 on my Win XPvirtual machine. No
time right now.

Steve Rindsberg said:
It's not due to Windows XP SP 2.
Click to expand...

But what's the current SP for Office 2002/XP?
Doesn't that apply the same [spit] "font embedding improvements" as were
foisted on us in PPT 2003?

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

-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Click to expand...
 
The PowerPoint Live 2003 CD? <G>

Echo S said:
Ah, thanks for that correction, Sonia. I'll have to find a presentation with
this problem and take a closer look at those icons!

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

Sonia said:
I think instead of ?? you should look for an icon that looks like a page with
two small "T"s on it, as opposed to the larger "TT" that usually appears next to
truetype fonts. At least that's what I see here. I think that you'll see ??
when the font is not embedded and is not found on the system at all.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Open the file as "read only" on your system. Then go to Format/Replace
Fonts. Do you see ?? beside any of the fonts in the top pull-down box? If
so, those are the culprits.
Click to expand...

That'd be fonts that are required by the presentation but not installed on your
PC. Those won't cause the presentation to open R/O though.

The nasties are the fonts that appear with an icon that's a pair of overlapping
Ts surrounded by a rectangle (the regular TT icon doesn't have a rectangle
around it)

I've updated this to show both normal and embedded TT icons:

PowerPoint opens presentations as Read-Only, won't allow editing when fonts
embedded
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00637.htm
However, it is definitely odd that those fonts are loaded on your computer,
but you're still receiving the "read only" error. Does your presentation use
Arial Black by any chance? That's been identified as a problem -- I'd call
it a bug, actually. For some reason that I cannot remember, if Arial Black
has been embedded into a presentation, you'll get the "read only" thing in
PPT 2003 even if Arial Black is installed on the system.
Click to expand...

You can't remember the reason 'cause there really IS none. It's a bug.
If you can locate a copy of Arial Black Italic and install it, it'll make the
"I just used Arial Black on my presentation and now I can't do a thing with it"
problem go away.


Only solution I
know is to open the file in a previous version of PPT and unimbed the fonts.

I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you. I find it one of the most
*incredibly frustrating* problems...

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

jon said:
Sonia, your message was most helpful and appreciated...thank you. I created
the presentation but used some fonts from a third party disk I purchased.
The fonts are loaded on my PC. I'm having difficulty understanding how I
determine what font(s) caused the problem and why I can't save what I created
and paid for. Any suggestions in identifying the culprit font and ways to
still pull this out are most appreciated.
Click to expand...
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