embed fonts microsoft office 2011 for mac

If Arial is so vital, it should have been included as a resource in the application bundle itself, but I digress.įont Book did show Arial as installed, with only a single copy after I purged the conflicting fonts as per Kurt Lang’s recommendations. Clearly PowerPoint is much less resilient than Keynote to missing fonts (crashing in outline view mode is inexcusable, but that’s Microsoft coding sloppiness for you).

Microsoft in its great wisdom installs a copy of Arial that conflicts with the system-supplied one, as explained in Kurt Lang’s must-read article on OS X font management, but that was not the root cause of the problem.Īrial was not appearing at all in the PowerPoint font menu, and opening the slides in Keynote yielded a font warning saying non-existent Arial was replaced by Arial Narrow. A search for possible solutions yielded inconclusive posts or dead-ends.Īfter much twiddling, it turns out the problem was with a misconfigured Arial font. Attempting to switch to outline view would crash PowerPoint. When I opened PowerPoint slides sent by a coworker, I was getting blank slides. This post may be of use to people experiencing the same problem I had.

Embed fonts microsoft office 2011 for mac