Font Style problem in PowerPoint 2004 Mac

[Jason Smith]

Several OpenType fonts I want to use in PPT 2004 : Mac are not displaying
correctly when selected for use. For example, the Regular weight of one font
family displays as the Bold version, on another font the Regular displays as
Italic, and on another the font selected displays as Arial! This is not a
problem with the fonts because they work fine in other programs like Word
etc., Adobe OTF fonts have the same problem. However Microsoft core fonts
seem to work fine. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
I find it unacceptable that this upgrade has cost me £210 and I can't use the
fonts I want to use.

Any one else had this problem? Help!

thanks
Jason

 

[Gavin Lawrie]

Several OpenType fonts I want to use in PPT 2004 : Mac are not displaying
correctly when selected for use. For example, the Regular weight of one font
family displays as the Bold version, on another font the Regular displays as
Italic, and on another the font selected displays as Arial! This is not a
problem with the fonts because they work fine in other programs like Word
etc., Adobe OTF fonts have the same problem. However Microsoft core fonts
seem to work fine. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
I find it unacceptable that this upgrade has cost me £210 and I can't use the
fonts I want to use.

Any one else had this problem? Help!

thanks
Jason

Hi Jason,

Powerpoint 2004 won't work with some (but not all) OTF fonts - it
substitutes random TTF fonts when it comes across them. According to
earlier threads in this forum, the likely candidates are OTF fonts from
Adobe's "Pro" collections, and possibly some others. We have the same
problem here with our corporate fonts (which are Adobe OTF Pro fonts).
Microsoft don't appear to have acknowledged that the problem exists, and
apparently nothing is being done to resolve this currently. Like you we
are stuck with the problem, and not happy about it. I'd imagine if
pushed MS will declare it to be a font vendor problem, while Adobe will
declare it to be an MS problem etc. etc.

The only viable option we've found is to reinstall Powerpoint from
Office Vx - it works with OTF fonts without any problems. But of course
you miss out on the benefits in PPT 2004... This strongly suggests the
problem itself is one introduced by MS during the upgrade to 2004.

Regards

Gavin Lawrie