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From: AES on 10 Apr 2010 17:44
I'm forced to open an occasional PowerPoint .ppt or .pptx presentation
using Keynote, in order to 'read' it on screen, Save it for future
reference (usually by printing it to PDF), or maybe extract some images
from it.

This doesn't happen often enough for me to develop a lot of expertise in
Keynote, so I'm asking if anyone can recommend a tutorial or share any
helpful hints on how to copy with the occasional translation glitches in
doing this.

The document warning flags thrown up by Keynote are primarily missing
font warnings, mostly for font names beginning with "C": Cambria,
Constantia, Calibri, �. Any suggestion on what replacement fonts are
the best choices for these? Any easy way to add these fonts to my
system (which is currently 10.4.11) so Keynote can use them?

Thanks for any advice.
From: William Clark on 10 Apr 2010 18:17
In article <siegman-659F18.14444710042010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> I'm forced to open an occasional PowerPoint .ppt or .pptx presentation
> using Keynote, in order to 'read' it on screen, Save it for future
> reference (usually by printing it to PDF), or maybe extract some images
> from it.
>
> This doesn't happen often enough for me to develop a lot of expertise in
> Keynote, so I'm asking if anyone can recommend a tutorial or share any
> helpful hints on how to copy with the occasional translation glitches in
> doing this.
>
> The document warning flags thrown up by Keynote are primarily missing
> font warnings, mostly for font names beginning with "C": Cambria,
> Constantia, Calibri, �. Any suggestion on what replacement fonts are
> the best choices for these? Any easy way to add these fonts to my
> system (which is currently 10.4.11) so Keynote can use them?
>
> Thanks for any advice.

I go backwards an forwards between Keynote '09 and PowerPoint 2008.
Keynote does a good job of opening PowerPoint files and managing to keep
the features. I usually only have to go through and touch up some font
spacings and the like, just to be sure. It will usually pick substitute
fonts (if they are needed) that are so similar you don't notice.

I don;t think you really need any tutorials - if you can use PowerPoint
2008, then Keynote will feel very similar - just better!
From: Eric on 12 Apr 2010 05:18
In article <siegman-659F18.14444710042010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> I'm forced to open an occasional PowerPoint .ppt or .pptx presentation
> using Keynote, in order to 'read' it on screen, Save it for future
> reference (usually by printing it to PDF), or maybe extract some images
> from it.
>
> This doesn't happen often enough for me to develop a lot of expertise in
> Keynote, so I'm asking if anyone can recommend a tutorial or share any
> helpful hints on how to copy with the occasional translation glitches in
> doing this.
>
> The document warning flags thrown up by Keynote are primarily missing
> font warnings, mostly for font names beginning with "C": Cambria,
> Constantia, Calibri, �. Any suggestion on what replacement fonts are
> the best choices for these? Any easy way to add these fonts to my
> system (which is currently 10.4.11) so Keynote can use them?

This will be the Microsoft ClearType font collection. Calibri, Cambria,
Constantia, Corbel, Candara, Consolas. Part of MS Office 2007? I gather
http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-font-collection/
will sell them, at considerable expense. No idea about compatibility.
From: AES on 13 Apr 2010 14:21
In article <hq0sr6$a2b$3(a)speranza.aioe.org>,
Bwig Zomberi <zomberiMAPSONNOSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric wrote:
> >
> > This will be the Microsoft ClearType font collection. Calibri, Cambria,
> > Constantia, Corbel, Candara, Consolas. Part of MS Office 2007? I gather
> > http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-font-collection/
> > will sell them, at considerable expense. No idea about compatibility.
>
> If you install PowerPOint 2007 viewer, those C fonts will be installed
> and licensed for free.
>

Thank you!

Except, on Googling for "PowerPoint Viewer" I'm initially led to

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048DC840-14E1-4
67D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en#Requirements>

which says

Font Components
You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to
display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows
operating system. Additionally, you may do the following:
• Embed fonts in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions
in the fonts
• When printing content, temporarily download the fonts to a printer
or other output device
You may not copy, install or use the fonts on other devices.

and

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows
Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

I'll keep digging to see if there is a Mac version.
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