Let us assume you received or created a presentation in a version earlier than PowerPoint 2003 for Windows (97, 2000, 2002). You probably have fonts embedded within the presentation.
Now you open it in PowerPoint 2003, and you find you cannot edit the presentation. PowerPoint tells you that “This presentation cannot be edited because it contains a read-only embedded font.”
Why does this happen? Is there a solution?
Let’s start at the very beginning by discussing font licensing. Fonts are created by various companies, commonly known as font foundries. Some of these companies do not mind if their fonts are embedded in presentations. Others do not like that idea too much. To identify which fonts allow embedding or otherwise, most fonts have some code attached to them which allows an application to know whether the font can be embedded or not. If you want to know if a particular font allows embedding, you can download Microsoft’s free Font Properties Extension.
PowerPoint on Windows has always enabled font embedding and versions before 2003 allowed you to open and view presentations even if you did not have the actual restricted and embedded fonts installed on a local machine. You could then replace the fonts and edit the presentation as required, and finally, save the presentation to a new file.
In PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft implemented an algorithm that does not allow you to edit any presentation that contains a restricted, embedded font that is not installed on your system. You cannot even replace the fonts and save a presentation to a new file.
Not surprisingly, this creates so many issues for users of PowerPoint everywhere.
Here are some solutions:
Hopefully, one of these solutions will help you solve this problem, and PowerPoint will no longer complain, “This presentation cannot be edited because it contains a read-only embedded font.”
Filed Under: Troubleshooting Tagged as: Embed, Fonts, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2003
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