Osaka font in Powerpoint

[Laurence Cook]

We work in a cross platform environment of PC and Mac desktops. We have Office 98
for Mac and Office 97 Pro for PC. A presentation, which is being developed by
both Mac and PC users, has managed to get Osaka font into it. This causes major
problems with printing on the PCs as it is not recognised. I have tried to font
substitute on a PC but get a message regarding single and double byte fonts. What
compatible font can I substitute on the Mac to resolve this problem?

[Geetesh Bajaj]

You can try converting the font. Visit URL:

Font Resources:
http://www.indezine.com/products/resources/fonts.html

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"Laurence Cook" <l.c...@lowefusion.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Steve Rindsberg]

I've run into this with PC-only PPT files and never found a way to get PPT
to substitute a single-byte font for a doublebyte one, though it occurs to
me that I haven't tried this on a PPT97 version that's got Japanese support
installed. So ...

Get out your Office CD and poke around the \ValuPack folder. In there
somewhere you'll find Far East Language Support and amongst it, there'll be
an option for Japanese. (Osaka is a Japanese font, ya see, which is why you
don't want Korean or Chinese).

That gets you limited double-byte support and a Japanese font (Mincho, I
think it is). And might then let you substitute Mincho (which you'd have)
for Osaka (which you don't). Or it might even let you sub plain old Arial.
If so, run out and buy some lottery tickets for both of us. It's your lucky
day and I want in on the deal.

Alternate plan: can you open the thing on the Mac and just substitute Arial
or Helvetica there?

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Laurence Cook <l.c...@lowefusion.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Laurence Cook]

Thanks for the possible solutions. Unfortunately, neither of them worked.

I opened on an Apple Mac, but the single/double byte problem still occurred.

I loaded Japanese support on my PC, and was able to substitute MS Mincho for
Osaka, but could not substitute Arial for MS Mincho. Single/double byte font
problem.

Is there any way I can remove Osaka from the presentation?

.

[Geetesh Bajaj]

I presume you mean replace all occurences of the Osaka font for some other.
You can replace any font using 'Replace' Fonts. You'll find it in the
Format -> Replace Fonts menu. More details at:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppfonts.html#replace

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[Steve Rindsberg]

> I presume you mean replace all occurences of the Osaka font for some
other.
> You can replace any font using 'Replace' Fonts. You'll find it in the
> Format -> Replace Fonts menu. More details at:

Yep, but PPT won't replace a doublebyte (Osaka) font with a singlebyte one.
Hence the problem.

[Steve Rindsberg]

What happens if you save the file as a PPT95 version presentation (under a
new name, PLEASE, so we don't trash the original!)?

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