Can't Edit presentation- read only embedded font

I copied a presentation from my desk top to my laptop via a flash drive. When I open the PP file a message appears telling me that I can not edit the presentation because it contains a read only embedded font. Please tell me how I can work around this as I need to be able to edit and work on the presentation on my lap top. Thanks

Are you using PowerPoint 2003 on both systems? It's a new "feature" that
we're all grumbling about. In the meantime the work around would be to
install the needed fonts on your laptop, or avoid fonts that are not on both
systems. You'll need to open the presentation on your desktop and change
the fonts in that case.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

"crashman2u" wrote in message
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I copied a presentation from my desk top to my laptop via a flash drive.
When I open the PP file a message appears telling me that I can not edit the
presentation because it contains a read only embedded font. Please tell me
how I can work around this as I need to be able to edit and work on the
presentation on my lap top. Thanks

sonia's spot on crashman2u,

since you never had problems with the font on the origianl machine
there is no authoring/ copyrgiht restrictions embedding the font.

install the font on your portable, but please make sure you have a
font license to do so for whatever font you are using as it seems that
you are using a non system font.

you can learn more about fonts and licensing issues at
http://www.123powerpoint.com/faqs_fonts.asp, though this refers mainly
to our fonts, general copyright rules apply to all fonts.

Regards,
Scott Harvey,
http://www.123powerpoint.com

"Sonia" wrote in message ...
Are you using PowerPoint 2003 on both systems? It's a new "feature" that
we're all grumbling about. In the meantime the work around would be to
install the needed fonts on your laptop, or avoid fonts that are not on both
systems. You'll need to open the presentation on your desktop and change
the fonts in that case.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

"crashman2u" wrote in message
...
I copied a presentation from my desk top to my laptop via a flash drive.
When I open the PP file a message appears telling me that I can not edit the
presentation because it contains a read only embedded font. Please tell me
how I can work around this as I need to be able to edit and work on the
presentation on my lap top. Thanks

crashman2u,

See
FONT embedding
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm


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TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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I copied a presentation from my desk top to my laptop via a flash drive. When I open the PP file a message appears
telling me that I can not edit the presentation because it contains a read only embedded font. Please tell me how I can
work around this as I need to be able to edit and work on the presentation on my lap top. Thanks

since you never had problems with the font on the origianl machine
there is no authoring/ copyrgiht restrictions embedding the font.

Slight correction: there must be embedding restrictions on the font or PowerPoint wouldn't
be complaining about it.

There are several levels of embedding permitted - the least restrictive level permits an
embedded font to be installed on the target system, but more often fonts are restricted to
a kind of "display-only" editing that allows you to view and print the file using the
embedded font, but not edit it. And that's what PPT2003 is complaining about. If the font
embedding permissions disallow editing, then PPT2003 will open the presentation as read
only.

install the font on your portable, but please make sure you have a
font license to do so for whatever font you are using as it seems that
you are using a non system font.

you can learn more about fonts and licensing issues at
http://www.123powerpoint.com/faqs_fonts.asp, though this refers mainly
to our fonts, general copyright rules apply to all fonts.

Regards,
Scott Harvey,
http://www.123powerpoint.com

"Sonia" wrote in message
...
Are you using PowerPoint 2003 on both systems? It's a new "feature" that
we're all grumbling about. In the meantime the work around would be to
install the needed fonts on your laptop, or avoid fonts that are not on both
systems. You'll need to open the presentation on your desktop and change
the fonts in that case.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

"crashman2u" wrote in message
...
I copied a presentation from my desk top to my laptop via a flash drive.
When I open the PP file a message appears telling me that I can not edit the
presentation because it contains a read only embedded font. Please tell me
how I can work around this as I need to be able to edit and work on the
presentation on my lap top. Thanks


--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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