Powerpoint2003: Prints wrong font on paper

[Sinlaeshel]

This powerpoint presentation I have is using a master slide as a template for all slides in the presentation. Each slide has a title text box, and a body text box (as per the master slide). Both text boxes have their fonts set to Arial, and their color set to blue (again, inherited from the master slide). However, when I print the document out through the printer (Have tried on two separate printers: Xerox Workcenter Pro 55, and Xerox Workcenter Pro 2128), the title text box font gets converted to Times New Roman, and its color changed from blue to black, whereas the body text box stays unmodified.

I've confirmed that the Arial font I'm using is a TrueType font. In the Font Select window, Powerpoint even confirms that 'This is a truetype font. It will print the same way it appears on your screen.' (or something like that). I've tried under powerpoint options --> Print , to 'Print Truetype Fonts as Graphics', but no change. The printer has Truetype options to 'Substitute with Device Font' or 'Download as SoftFont' but neither of these have any affect on the printed product either.

Any tips?

Thanks in advance,

 

[grande]

I don't know much about Master-slides and all the junk, but try changing the actual slide (the one that's derrived from the master). Change it to some other font (courier, wing dings, anything but TNR and Arial), and print it. See if that has any effect.

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[dcompto]

A support document I have states,

Note, however, that the title font is ultimately controlled by the Slide Master. That is, if you change the title typeface in the Title Master, for instance, and then set a different typeface for the title in the Slide Master, the latter typeface will be applied to the Title Master, as well.

Source:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=381918&seqNum=2&rl=1

 

[Sinlaeshel]

dcompto,

Thanks for the theory, unfortunately the problem remains.

I went into the presentation giving me issues and looked at the master view. There was no master title to be seen, only a master slide. I tried adding a master slide, and saw that the title text on the newly-created title slide was set to the same font that was printing (TNR black). Without any better idea, I changed this title font to Arial blue, but it had no effect on the printout.

I've discovered some odd new symptoms:

I went to make a new powerpoint presentation, and told it to use the presentation giving me issues as a design template. My fresh powerpoint presentation popped up, and I went to the fresh presentation's master slide. For some reason, the master slide on the fresh presentation mimicked the pages that were printing (Title font TNR black, body font Arial blue), even though the master slide of the presentation I told it to use as a design template seems to have the settings desired (title font Arial blue, body font arial blue). Based on the incorrect settings of the fresh presentation's master slide, the settings which it took from the troublesome presentation's master slide, it makes me think that there's something powerpoint isn't letting me see in the troublesome presentation; even though the master slide appears to be set up correctly, somewhere/someplace it isn't, based off of the settings my fresh presentation inherited from it.

 

[TAJSimmons]

Sinlaeshel,

Beats me

If it was me, i'd try and isolate the problem.

is it the PC, printer, powerpoint, or individual presentation.

What happens when you just create one slide, using the default blank template in powerpoint. then print it. (stick to one printer for now).

If that's ok, then change the fonts, print it. Ok?

If that's ok, then change the color of one of the fonts, print it. Ok?

if that's all ok, then your individual presentation has problems. Try saving it under a new filename, then delete all the slides except one. Does that print OK?

etc, etc,

Cheers


TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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