Help with Locating and Deleting Unused Fonts in ActivePresenter Project

ActivePresenter Support Questions
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Dear ActivePresenter Support Team,

I have a question regarding font usage within a project. During development, I added text using certain fonts but later replaced them with different ones. Now, even though I’m no longer using the original fonts anywhere (as far as I know), they still appear to be part of the project.

When exporting, I noticed there’s an option to embed fonts, but I prefer not to include unused fonts at all.

My questions are:

  1. How can I completely remove unused fonts from the project?
  2. Is there a way to locate where a specific font is still being used, if it exists somewhere in the project?

Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

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Hi,

Please find my answers regarding your questions about font usage below:

  1. Removing Unused Fonts:
    Currently, ActivePresenter does not automatically detect and remove unused fonts from a project. Fonts may still be embedded if they were used at any point in the project, even if the visible content no longer references them.
  2. Locating Fonts in Use:
    In this case, you should manually review the whole project to identify lingering font usage. You can check the slides, slide masters, feedback layers, object states, closed captions, etc.

BR,

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Hi,
Thank you very much.

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Thank you for your reply.

Even though I carefully checked every part of my project (slides, slide masters, feedback layers, object states, closed captions, etc.), the font still appears to be embedded during export.

I did manage to find a solution, although it’s a bit manual and time-consuming:

I opened the .approj file in a text editor and used Command + F to search for the font name. Once I found the reference, I went back into ActivePresenter and located the corresponding element in the project to remove or update it.

It’s not the most straightforward method—but unless you’re a wizard, this seems to be the only reliable way to track down hidden font usage :slight_smile:

Best regards,

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Thanks for the detailed follow-up, and for sharing the solution you found.
That’s a creative (and yes, slightly wizard-like :blush:) workaround!
We’ve noted this experience to explore ways we might make font tracking and cleanup more intuitive in future updates.

BR,

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