On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 10:54:55 -0400, Bob Font bob.font@typefaces-r-us.$$$
wrote:
pick an OS, pick your software and make certain it is compatible
with your commercial printer or sign company.

We found out that Windows PowerPoint can embed fonts but PowerPoint on the
Mac can't see those Windows-embedded fonts, and that Mac PowerPoint can't
embed fonts.

What is irksome is that Microswoft literally lies by not telling us that on
their support site, despite the fact that they KNOW this through & through.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-powerpoint

It would be helpful if other people (not just me) would paste into the
suggestion box at that site to just tell the truth, which is described here
and which covers ALL PowerPoint versions on the Mac including 2017.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00076_Embedding_fonts.htm

The line of interest on embedding compatibility in that summary is:
"Mac versions of PowerPoint can't embed fonts or use fonts that have been
embedded by a Windows version of PowerPoint."

Otherwise, use a free font.

The "Roadgeek 2005 Series B" font "is" a free font, specifically designed
for road signs, whose purpose is exactly what I'm using it for.
http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005

The legal requirement is that the letters be two inches in height (and that
the sign area be at least one square foot).
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...ctionNum= 602

We could buy standard signs but we are making our own as a school and
community joint project.
http://www.placer.ca.gov/~/media/srf...QUIREMENTS.pdf

The only requirement is to keep the copyright notice intact when
distributing the font. We have no idea if "embedding" is the same as
"distributing" though since they mostly speak of distributing by web pages.
"Copyright (c) Michael D. Adams, 2005. All rights reserved."

The font is apparently under a Creative Commons "BY" license:
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wik...or_attribution
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wik...h_a_CC_license
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wik...NC_adaptations

In the summary of what I found out in the past two days, there's no problem
with PowerPoint on Windows following Micrsosoft instructions but Microsoft
lied by not telling us that Mac PowerPoint isn't compatible with Windows
PowerPoint font embedding and worse, the instructions for embedding fonts
won't work on a Mac with any version of Microsoft Office Power Point.