Office 2008 Service Pack 1: OpenType font issue

[Holger_Gerhardt]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I've just installed SP1 - which resulted in several of my PowerPoint presentations not being displayed correctly any more!

I'm using OpenType fonts in the affected presentations - more specifically ScalaPro and ScalaSansPro. Before installing SP1, I was able to access these fonts' true bold and italic variants. Now neither the bold nor the italic variant is being displayed any more. Instead they are replaced by some horrible-looking digitally generated bold/italic type.

This is just awful! How can this happen? Why does a "Service Pack" make things WORSE?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I've just installed SP1 - which resulted in several of my PowerPoint
presentations not being displayed correctly any more!

I'm using OpenType fonts in the affected presentations - more specifically
ScalaPro and ScalaSansPro. Before installing SP1, I was able to access these
fonts' true bold and italic variants. Now neither the bold nor the italic
variant is being displayed any more. Instead they are replaced by some
horrible-looking digitally generated bold/italic type.

This is just awful! How can this happen? Why does a "Service Pack" make
things WORSE?

Does restarting your machine (to wipe out the font caches) make things
better?

 

[Holger_Gerhardt]

Hi,

thanks for the quick reply!

No, unfortunately, restarting the computer doesn't solve the problem.

To describe the issue in a bit more detail: The fonts ScalaPro and ScalaSansPro (issued by FontShop) don't show up in the formatting palette. However, they do show up in PowerPoint's font menu ("Format" -> "Font"). (In contrast, Adobe OpenType fonts are displayed correctly.)

Funnily, I can access the bold-italic variant by typing in "ScalaSansPro-BoldItalic", but this works neither for "ScalaSansPro-Italic" nor "ScalaSansPro-Bold". (The obvious way, plainly clicking the "bold" or "italic" button, doesn't work - no matter whether I choose "ScalaSansPro" or "ScalaSansPro-Regular" as the base font.)

Best,

Holger

 

[Scot_M_[MSFT]]

Holger,

Is there any chance I can get a sample of your presentation and a copy of the font files that are causing you problems? I am interested in learning more about this issue and it would be a great help to have a copy of the files that are causing you problems.

Thanks,

-Scot

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