

"Restricted" in this context is in regards to the copywriting/royalties on fonts.įonts that have this flag set must not be modified, embedded or exchanged in any manner without first obtaining permission of the legal owner. If you want to embed the fonts, use fonts that are not restricted. Since not all of my users will be using Windows, so I can't rely on a list of Windows system fonts to ensure "unrestricted" fonts. Microsoft's help page on the subject tells me what the issues are with font restrictions but doesn't give me any further assistance other than to link to a list of fonts included with Windows. Searches like " list of unrestricted fonts" and " unrestricted fonts for PowerPoint" aren't super useful. What I need is a list of popular fonts that are recognized as "unrestricted" so that I can construct a template and then embed fonts in it without fear of the fonts being flagged as "restricted" when the template is shared. I'm not going to attempt to defeat font restrictions. This is obviously suboptimal and kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a shared template. PowerPoint then attempts to auto-substitute fonts at more-or-less random. The issue I'm having is that when the PowerPoint template is opened, my trial users get an error message that the fonts embedded inside it are "restricted" and the presentation will be read-only. I'm currently attempting to embed fonts in a PowerPoint template, which I will then circulate. I have no guarantee that any given font will be installed on any given person's computer. I've got a broad need to create a PowerPoint template to be shared across a range of several dozen people, with widely varying ranges of technical aptitude and different computers.
