Packaging a Presentation to a CD

[Ricki W.]

I have a very basic presentation - just using a MS theme for formatting, and
verdana as a font. There are no images, etc. When packaging this
presentation to a CD, the fonts do not display on the packaged CD version.

I have attempted to embed fonts at both the "Save As" and the packaging
options level and am at my wit's end.

Suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Ricki W.]

It won't display on my PC, or others. All of the PC's that I have tried this
on are modern Windows PC's, as well.

When I say "does not display" I mean that it completely will not display.
No garbled text, no odd characters.... nothing. :-(

 

[Ricki W.]

Steve,

Thanks for the responses thus far!

I completed both of your tests, on two different computers, and in both
cases everything was great. The text displayed as expected.

Ricki

 

[Ricki W.]

I have sent a test presentation your way!

Ricki

 

[Ricki W.]

Thanks a bunch Steve! And, as an FYI, you were right on about 2007... my
boss runs it and has accessed the PPT...

Ricki

I have sent a test presentation your way!

Thanks Ricki. I think we have a winner here.

The problem seems to be a corrupted PPT file; sometimes a corrupted file can work fine in
some versions of PPT/Viewer and not others.

I'm figuring it's the original file that's corrupt, not the one produced by Package for CD,
because if I open the original in the PPT viewer, the text goes missing there too. That
seems to let P4CD off the hook.

So what I did was to open the original and roundtrip it to HTML and back (which tends to
clean out certain forms of nastiness). I saved that version off to the folder full of P4CD
goodness and voila, it opens and plays fine. [That'd be the folder containing all the P4CD
stuff].

Our free PPTools Starter Set has a tool that automatically roundtrips files to HTML for you
... http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

This explains how to do it manually:

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

I've added info about this problem here:

Text disappears in the Viewer
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00877.htm

How'd it get corrupted? Hard to say. Some oddity re saving from 2007 originally? I
noticed that the presentation thinks it needs Calibri, which suggests that 2007 touched it.

Executive Summary:
Mildly corrupted PPT file causes text to disappear in the Viewer but not in PPT itself.
Rountripping fixes the problem.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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