Microsoft KB Archive/944632

= Live Meeting meeting attendees do not see custom fonts in PowerPoint slides =

Article ID: 944632

Article Last Modified on 11/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005

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SYMPTOMS
When attendees of a meeting in Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 view an Office PowerPoint presentation that uses custom fonts, the attendees do not see the custom fonts. Instead, the custom fonts are replaced with standard Windows fonts.



CAUSE
This issue may occur if attendees do not have the custom fonts that are used in the PowerPoint presentation installed on their computers. Also, Live Meeting 2005 does not display embedded fonts in PowerPoint presentations.

Live Meeting 2005 uses PowerPoint Viewer to display slides. PowerPoint Viewer does not support the following features:
 * Displaying Information Rights Management (IRM) presentations
 * Running macros or programs
 * Opening linked or embedded objects



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods.

Method 1
Ask attendees to install the custom fonts that the meeting presenter plans to use in the PowerPoint presentation.

Method 2
Import the PowerPoint presentation as a Live Meeting 2003 presentation. Live Meeting 2003 uses snapshots of slides instead of the slides themselves. Therefore, Live Meeting 2003 does not require that attendees install custom fonts on their computers. However, attendees may experience loss of resolution, loss of animation, and loss of other PowerPoint slide features for the slides in the PowerPoint presentation. To save the PowerPoint presentation as a Live Meeting 2003 presentation, follow these steps:  Install the Live Meeting 2003 Add-in for PowerPoint. To download the add-in, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d39e68f-cc1a-4388-ab50-0a7a380f321c&displaylang=en

 Open the presentation in PowerPoint. On the Live Meeting menu, click Export as a Live Meeting Slide Set. Select a location to save the presentation. In the Save as type box, specify the file type as .pwp, and then click Save. Import the .pwp file into the meeting.</ol>

Method 3
Ask attendees to use the Live Meeting 2005 Windows-based console to change the Internet connection speed settings. This will force Live Meeting 2005 to send only snapshots of slides and not the slides themselves. Attendees who make this change do not see slide animations. Instead, attendees see only a static image of the final state of each slide. To change the Internet connection speed, follow these steps:
 * 1) In the Live Meeting console, click User Preferences on the Tools menu.
 * 2) In the User Preferences dialog box, click Connection Speed.
 * 3) Click I have a dial-up connection (56K modem), and then click OK.

Additional query words: lm7, lm2005

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