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Old April 2nd 18, 02:03 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Can Mac Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint with fonts?

Am Sun, 01 Apr 2018 19:17:02 -0400, schrieb nospam:

Here's a tutorial I just wrote up, for example, for the Windows users to
benefit from, where I simply asked them to help me figure out why the
second CD keeps being asked for.


you can't even manage to pirate software without having problems.


Hi nospam,

As always, you prove you act like a child and not like an adult in that:
a. You have zero intention to ever be helpful to anyone, and,
b. Even if you did try to help, you just guess, which means,
c. That your guess is about as useful to anyone as throwing dice would be.

Meanwhile, on the adult helpful platform newsgroups, we solve /every/
technical question ever asked.'
http://i.cubeupload.com/20nlCB.gif

For example, we now have the Adobe Illustrator test case working fine with
fonts, where it took a couple of additional steps because apparently the
original Windows Powerpoint file had embedded fonts, which came from
someone else, so I didn't have those fonts on my Windows 10 system.

In just a few minutes, we solved the problem on the adult newsgroup, where
this was the sequence of questions what resulted in a solution, as always.


0. I picked up a Powerpoint file from someone else which used this font:
http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005

Note: I never "installed" that font, to my knowledge.

1. That PowerPoint 2007 clearly has a "Roadgeek 2005 Series B" font.
http://i.cubeupload.com/1uNFmZ.gif
Note: The font exists in the PowerPoint file, by some magic, even though
I never "installed" that font explicitly (whatever it means to install
a font).

2. That "Roadgeek 2005 Series B" set is embedded in an output PDF.
http://i.cubeupload.com/FwghPH.gif

3. When I read that PDF into Adobe Illustrator, it doesn't see the font.
http://i.cubeupload.com/qIAOAL.gif

4. When I try to switch fonts, AI doesn't see that font anywhere.
http://i.cubeupload.com/qIAOAL.gif

5. When I go into the Windows Font directory, it's not there either.
http://i.cubeupload.com/6XxE7P.gif

Quick question only about how FONTS work in Windows & MS Office.
Q1: So how did Powerpoint have the font in the first place?
Q2: What's the process to "give" that font to the next tool that needs it?

Am Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:36:08 -0400, schrieb Bob_S:
The quick answer is the PowerPoint presentation had the fonts embedded into
it.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-powerpoint


Thanks Bob_S for that advice,

The main question is why can PowerPoint embed a font and yet Adobe
Illustrator can't embed a font?

In that manner, this "embedding" of fonts seems to be very localized, in
that PowerPoint saw it, since I never installed that font on Windows, and
so did the PDF file see it, but *nothing* else saw the font (e.g., Adobe
Illustrator) couldn't see the font anywhere.

The way I solved the problem was the following, so that others might
benefit from my first experience with such things.

A. I downloaded the zip file from the Internet of the free RoadGeek fonts.

B. I extracted that zip file to the following set of files.
http://i.cubeupload.com/UU5aCL.gif

C. I copied and pasted those extracted files to the Win10 Fonts folder.
http://i.cubeupload.com/6twBO9.gif

D. That copy and paste resulted in the fonts showing up in that folder.
http://i.cubeupload.com/PnUglo.gif

E. Then Adobe Illustrator was able to finally "see" that font.
http://i.cubeupload.com/gBNu1P.gif

F. With the result being that the AI file is the same now as the original.
http://i.cubeupload.com/20nlCB.gif

So I guess the main question with respect to fonts is why does only
PowerPoint and PDF embed fonts.

Why couldn't other programs, like Adobe Illustrator, just embed the fonts
whatever way that PowerPoint did?
 




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