Soon after I launched my School Cursive font, I received feedback from buyers that the font doesn't work in Microsoft Powerpoint. That's a big drawback, because many teachers use Powerpoint to create lesson materials.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a limitation in Powerpoint, and all fonts that use advanced OpenType features suffer from this. So initially, I thought there was nothing I could do about it.
Recently, somebody asked me about OpenType support in another application, that I had never heard of. When I started looking for information, I found that people were using a manual workaround to access glyphs that are normally accessed through advanced OpenType features. I realized that in my fonts, all glyphs can be manually accessed, but also, that this would be unworkable due to the high number of glyphs and the similarity between glyphs.
So... I've made a webpage that automatically finds the correct glyphs for you. All you need to do is type your text, and then you can copy-paste the converted text into Powerpoint!
Click here to use the Powerpoint workaround
The webpage assisted workaround will probably also work for other applications that don't support advanced OpenType features.
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