Embed fonts in keynote?

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Embed fonts in keynote?

I've searched every way I can think of, in help, manual here and other forum sites. This would appear to make it certain that keynote cannot embed fonts in a document for portability (as alas, ppt can). Can anyone give me a definitive answer?

I'm forced to do a presentation on an unknown AV setup on the road, with no time or access to import a font or two. So I can use text images (pixel) in slides, but many vector magic tricks are then unusable.

various - PBook G4- tower dual G5- MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 24, 2008 9:44 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 24, 2008 10:50 PM in response to Xenic

In Keynote select the text box (not the text but the box that the text is in) then copy. Open Preview, under the menu File, Open From Clipboard. The text will appear in Preview. Save as a PDF.
Import the PDF into Keynote. Replace the text with the PDF. The PDF file will be a victor image, not a graphic image. Text will still be scaleable. I don't know without seeing what you want to use the text for if this would work for you.

Or...

Copy the fonts and take them with you.

On the computer you are to use, open Font Book.
Find the folder with the font you want to use and select the fonts you want to use. This will take less than a minute to do. If the computer operator is hard press to do this...I don't know what to say about about the computer operator. The operator should be willing to do this...Call and find out. You could send the fonts by way of email in advance.

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Answer 2

Xenic Author

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Apr 25, 2008 1:59 AM in response to Xenic

Thanks for the advice. I think for this project I'll use images of the text assembled in layers in PSP. Monkeying at all with the machines of unknown state would look unprofessional as there is truly no setup time before performance in this dog and pony show. While I am capable of installing fonts in OS X at lightning speed, the mere act of it would cause consternation in my clients and this is a pitch.

thanks again.

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Answer 3

Apr 25, 2008 3:35 AM in response to Xenic

I do not know if this information will be useful, but as far as I remember, Word for Windows can embed fonts, but not Word for Mac. Pages definitely cannot. It may be the same thing with PowerPoint, that only the Windows version can do it (?) and Keynote cannot.

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Answer 4

May 7, 2008 11:20 AM in response to Xenic

FYI: I have had to help folks who created presentations in Keynote (and/or Powerpoint) on a Mac try to port them successfully for a presentation on a Windows machine and I either recommend an "export" as .pdf file, which automatically embeds the fonts and their correct placement, or if it has a soundtrack, export as a clickable Quicktime movie, which also embeds the fonts.

There are drawbacks to both, but every Windows machine I've encountered has Acrobat, and many now have Quicktime. Acrobat for WIndows/Mac can be presented at Fullscreen and clicked with the spacebar or arrow keys for forward and back. Unfortunately, transitions are knocked out.

Movies in Quicktime can also be played back at Fullscreen, no space bar, but click and arrow keys, but not "all" transitions will come through, plus the Movie size can become enormous for transport.

Just my 2¢.

---Laura

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Answer 5

Jun 2, 2008 8:12 AM in response to Magnus Lewan

I had someone ask me this same question, except with powerpoint today. After one search on google, it turns out that both powerpoint 2003 and powerpoint 2007 can embed fonts in the presentation!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826832

Apple have a little catching up to do. This makes distributing presentations with non-standard fonts quite difficult.

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