Presentation Font Embedder 4+

Works Great for Free Fonts, Can’t Embed Most Paid License Fonts

Font foundries have the ability to set restrictions for embedding fonts that they design. They may decide to restrict edibility of embedded font, or restrict embedding altogether. Be aware that if you paid for (licensed) a font, it is likely restricted from embedding and will not be embedded in editable mode. The workaround is to use the “universal” method which converts your fonts to images. This works pretty well, but some of your animations will be off—for example, if you have a series of bullets, they will become a single image. If you want to build them point-by-point, you’re going to have to put each bulleted section in its own text box.

When Presentation Font Embedder encounters a font that is restricted for embedding, the font is skipped and a warning about this is shown in the results panel. If you’re a graphic designer who has paid for and used commercially licensed fonts, you’ll experience this issue often.

Overall this is a useful tool if you realize what you’re getting when you go into it. It’s sort of a “best alternative” to getting someone to install the proper fonts on their system to view the presentation the way it was originally designed.

Developer Response ,

Dear bcrockett1,
Thank you very much for your comprehensive review, it really helps other users, we are very grateful.
From our experience, most fonts, including commercial ones, are not restricted for the Editable method. Anyway, we always recommend the Universal method because of the additional Mac and iPhone support.
Thank you for mentioning the workaround for the bulleted sections animations, this is indeed a very useful workaround.
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Thank you again,
BR,
Sahar Radomsky
Developer of Presentation Font Embedder

Love this APP - but gives me a headache

I bought this app couple years ago. Now it’s a miss and go. Sometimes it work other times it shows as damaged. Very irritating. Not worth your money or time anymore unless the developers update it. But when it works, it works good. Please do something about it, developers.

Does just what it says it will do

It works flawlessly. It can generate two kinds of output: “universal” doens’t embed your fonts, it makes bitmaps out of them in the destination Power Point doc — looks perfect. The other kind, “editable”, actually does embed fonts in the .pptx file. Use that approach if you want a document you or a recipient can open on Windows and modify (but you still won’t be able to modify the .pptx on your Mac).

Those two approaches pretty much cover the universe of possible solutions to this annoying Microsoft limitation. I’m grateful the software developer identified this niche and filled it.

Developer Response ,

Dear Hughpad,
Thank you for your review and we are very happy to hear that you find Presentation Font Embedder useful and like it. Thank you for your explanation on our two embedding methods. By the way: It is possible to change the output resolution of the Universal method using the Preferences menu item. We invite you to join our newsletter and keep in touch.
Thanks,
BR,
Sahar Radomsky
Developer of Presentation Font Embedder