PPT Mac: embedded fonts displaying wrong spacing on PCs

Anonymous
2018-11-16T13:29:00+00:00

Hi all,

I'm using PPT 16.20 for Mac. Embedding fonts (yay!), but when the presentation is shown on the client's PC, the character spacing is way off.

I've set some text to Tight or Very Tight, but in the screencaps I'm getting back, it actually looks expanded. In text boxes with headings, even when the box is quite a bit wider than needed, they're seeing the text spaced out with letters cut off at the end.

It looks like the embedding is working; it's the correct font, with no "missing fonts" alert.

I know that embedding is pretty new in PPT Mac, but has anyone else seen or solved this?

Thanks for any advice!

B

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Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2018-11-16T17:54:25+00:00

The best way to get attention on this from MS is to provide a detailed repro case so they can reproduce the results at their end.  They don't generally watch this forum but we can get the info to them.

So please do the following:

Produce a small PPTX file using the same font as you're currently having issues with, save the file with fonts embedded and also take a screenshot of the slide using the fonts, add a new blank slide and add the screenshot to it.  Result:  one slide that uses the fonts, another slide that's just an image of the first slide so anyone who opens the file can compare what you're seeing (the image) with what's happening to the fonts (the regular slide).

It'd be helpful if some of the text on the first slide includes the full current PPT version and your MacOS version, along with the full name of the font in question.

Pop the resulting file onto dropbox/OneDrive/etc and reply here with a link to it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-19T17:28:17+00:00

    The steps Steve mentioned would be extremely helpful. It would also be helpful for us to know if this happens with all fonts, or just a specific one. 

    -Jesse

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