Strange Font Behavior

[Farley]

I sometimes use Greek words in my presentations (Helana font). The key
sequence for a circumflex accent is option-v. When I type this sequence
the font of the character changes to Lucida Grande and won't change to
any other font. Does option-v mean something to PowerPoint that I don't
know about? The sequence works fine in all my other programs (including
MS Word).

 

[Sol Apache]

Hi Farley

I cannot help you with this - I have a similar problem with Lucida Grande
lurking in my presentations and I never put it there!!

I keep getting messages about a Chinese font and font substitution. Well all
the presentations affected are in English (more or less) and I never never
use Chinese as it is not something I know. I have deleted all my Chinese
fonts because they are a waste of space. And why should an English version
of PPT be bothering with 2-bit fonts??

If I try to do a ³Replace font² on Lucida Grande, PowerPoint refuses to let
me (also I cannot replace Arial even though it isn¹t used at all by me in
the presentation). You cannot search for a font only in PowerPoint and
Lucida Grande is invisible in the presentation - until someone opens the
document on a PC and complains about the formatting. (I am using PPT 2004 on
Mac OSX.4)

And, as you mention, it is really difficult to copy and select Lucida Grande
within the text. What I do is select the text around it and retype it
completely (but still I get Lucida Grande showing in my font list).

The text is copied from Quark or exported as text from Quark so maybe in my
case the problem is some incompatibility with Quark formatting. The only way
around I have found is to open or copy the text in BBEdit or Mellel or Nisus
6.5 to zap the gremlins before I put it into PPT.

But the invisible gremlins should not be in PPT, should they?


Sol

 

[Guest]

I believe Lucida Grande is the fallback font when font substitution
fails. Apple says that Lucida Grande is an essential system font that
should never be removed (see
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L303878B_Font_TT_v4.pdf).

As for the font substitution messages, see my post at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group....office.powerpoint/msg/772c2204a909547b?hl=en
s as for how to fix them. Basically, if you don't want to see the
messages, I think you need to have MS PGothic (it's not displayed this
way in PowerPoint's font drop down) and Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3
enabled.