Problems printing to a color printer in Powerpoint 2000

[George Johnson]

I have a PPT document that I'm trying to print to a Canon ColorPass
Z650 Printer. The template has some text in the Futura Book Font. I'm
running Powerpoint 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 Professional. When I try
to print the document to another printer, for instance, a HP LaserJet
5000TN, it will print out without any problems. When I try to print it
to the Canon printer, it will print the background, but not the text.
To further explain, the ppt has a backgrond image, with several text
boxes with Futura Book font text. It's strange that this is happening
because there is another computer with a similar configuration (they
have Powerpoint 2000 (no serivce Pack), Windows 2000 and they can
print to both printers with the text printing out. Then there is
another computer with my configuration, that is having the same
problem. Then there are two Windows XP computers running PowerPoint
2000 (no service pack) that are having the same problem that I am. I
updated the drivers for the canon printer on all computers, and the
problem still exists. The Windows 2000 computer with Powerpoint 2000,
is the least slowest in terms of hardware (It's a PII 233 w/ 6GB HD,
while all the others are either PIII 1G or P4s), but it's the only one
that can do the job (although I doubt it's a hardware issue).

Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to fix this. Thanks in
advance.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

George,

First question....is the Future Book font in the presentations a True Type
font?

If it is powerpoint will show a little TT symbol next to the font name in
the font list when you select some text.
It could be a "printer only" font.

Second question.....On the computers that have the problems printing to the
canon printer...do they definately have this future book true type font
installed?

Third question....is there anything in the printer/properties for the canon
printer that says something along the lines of

Send fonts to printer or
Rasterize fonts before sending or
Use printers internal fonts or similar

Fourth question.....create a blank presentation with just one line of text
in your fututa font. Print it to the canon printer...Does it work?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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