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I had trouble opening an old presentation which used the Futura font – I wanted to reuse the theme and layout for a new presentation. The presentation opened in read only mode but refused to save or edit without removing this font which it had embedded. I mistakenly thought this font came with an older version of office, but having reinstalled an older version on an old PC and searching around I found this was not the case. I also tried Mutools to extract the fonts from an old PDF saved from the presentation, but this failed with an indirection error.
In the end I recalled that I actually installed this from Coreldraw 3, which comes with a clipart CD containing a large number of fonts and clipart pieces – the above font was one of them. I used Coreldraw to create the original Salient Soft logo, which was originally used for my previous company, Digital Agility, and then kept and reused for the new company. Sadly I was unable to locate my original CDs for Coreldraw – they would not be compatible with the latest windows, but the clipart CD would have been useful.
Fortunately, I searched around and found I had archived all the font TTF files with the letterhead/logo files in a Salient Soft forms directory. Installing them in Windows 11 was trivial – I just selected them all, right clicked, and picked install for all users. My presentation then opened, except for a second font, AmerType DB. However, I had not actually used this font, so was able to strip it out and save a new copy of the presentation which was editable, to allow getting the theme and layout.
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