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How do I remove mysterious, undesired embedded fonts from PowerPoint file?
We need to remove some fonts that are referenced in a PowerPoint file, yet oddly don't get removed when we use the Replace Fonts command. The fonts in question don't appear anywhere that we can see visually on slides (not master slides). The font names are for fonts that long long ago we had in the pptx file but have long since stopped using. We have no use for these fonts in our pptx. And the fonts in question (e.g. "ITC Franklin Gothic Std Book") are not fonts that are shipped with Windows or MacOS.
Some users are reporting, when they open the pptx, a dialog box regarding "Install Embedded Fonts" ... "Some of the embedded fonts in your presentation cannot be installed".
Do you know how we can vanquish such traces of a font from the pptx?
We were even thinking of even using a VBA script to find where they re in the file, but we have no experience writing VBA script.
We also tried generating a PDF of the file to see if we could find the fonts in that PDF . The result of that experiment was that these mystery embedded fonts do not appear in the fonts list in the PDF... thus proving to us that the fonts are no actually being used in the slide.
(Home > Replace - dropdown "Replace Fonts") That will list all the fonts in the document even if you've just a space in that format.
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I swear by Brightslide. :-)
I also use THOR - The Hammer (pptools.com).
Will echo Jamie's recommend for The Noun Project icons. Worth every penny.
Also Slidewise, of course, and NXP (Neuxpower Lite) from the same folks to "right-size" files that are larger than they should be.
ToolsToo is also in the mix sometimes.
are you able to provide a screenshot showing those fonts or upload an example PowerPoint file for review?