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Apple Updates iWork Apps for Mac and iOS With New Features
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All this means that you are opening a document with unusual fonts that are being replaced so that you can read that document. It is however very odd that Pages has used a font that is not supplied by the OS.
Right, and there are several templates that have missing fonts. Perhaps Apple intended to license the fonts, the deals fell through, and they just didn’t update the templates? Perhaps
Is there anyone else that can pull up the “Instructional” template in Pages to confirm they get the same message? Just doing some extra checking prior to creating a bug report
EDIT: Did the same thing on the Mac… first time I tried using the “Instructional” template, it failed due to missing ProximaNova. Trying a second time, it appears the font is available on my Mac now.
UPDATE: I also see that, on the Mac in Font Book, the “missing” fonts are in the list of fonts, just grayed out. When clicking on them and getting info, right under Version, it shows a location as “Downloadable font asset”, like it does here for Publico Headline and Publico Text.
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Including the font names here as I find them so folks can find this thread to add comments if they’ve seen the issue with any of these other fonts.
Publico Headline
Publico Text
Founders Grotesk
Founders Grotesk Condensed
Founders Grotesk Text
Graphik
Graphik Compact
Canela
Canela Deck
Canela Text
Publico Headline
Publico Text
Founders Grotesk
Founders Grotesk Condensed
Founders Grotesk Text
Graphik
Graphik Compact
Canela
Canela Deck
Canela Text
None of those fonts show on my Pages list of all fonts. And as I am writing this all of the fonts are underlined to indicate that there is no such word in the Pages vocabulary spell check.
You're welcome. I remember my excitement when I first got to test it. My first project was to create a data visualisation of my Health log ;-)
I haven't tried Pages between MacOS and iOS in absolute yonks, but my favourite moment with the app back then was creating a document in Pages and then attempting to transfer it to iOS, only to be told the document's fonts and formatting would be changed to accommodate the app. Apple product to Apple product. It was about then I scrapped any real thought of Pages as an alternative WP.
This only underlines that decision.
Yes? If you look up how to do something in pages, google will deliver you relevant search results. If you look up anything for numbers, it will give you excel results.
Found this prior post, however, the steps defined no longer work on the current beta. iWork on iPad SHOULD be pulling down the required fonts, but it’s not. I’ll file a bug report with Apple.I created a Keynote presentation with each of the new fonts and their variants (16 different text boxes). Then, I opened that presentation on my iPad. The first time I opened it, it said fonts were missing. But as it was displaying that message, the fonts were downloading in the background, replacing the default font with the new ones. When I opened the presentation the second time, no error, so now they're installed on my iPad
I've been using 20 years MSOffice, but now since more than 10 years Numbers, Pages and Keynote. I must say, for the most of my Work, it's absolutely enough and very easy to use when you once understand the difference. What i most love in Numbers and that's i always missed in excel is the ability to display multiple sheets on one page with different graphs. iWorks becomes better every time. love it ;-)
The automatic download of fonts (or the proper display of the error) appears to have been resolved in the latest iPadOS beta (and likely iOS beta as well). If you use a template that uses a font that you haven’t yet downloaded, it’ll download quickly in the background and be available the next time you try to use the template.
So, for anyone that downloads the latest iWork apps, picks a template and sees the message
“The font xxxxx is missing.* Your text might look different.” it’s because it’s the first time you’ve used a template for which the font hasn’t been downloaded from Apple yet. The auto download (or the notification that the font is missing) is broken in 15.4, so you may see that error every time you open a presentation that uses that font. It looks like it’ll be fixed in 15.5.
If you are opening a file from someone else or the fonts indicated as missing aren’t in the list below, then it’s likely a different issue. This only applies to creating a new file from one of the built-in templates.
*where xxxxx is
Publico Headline
Publico Text
Founders Grotesk
Founders Grotesk Condensed
Founders Grotesk Text
Graphik
Graphik Compact
Canela
Canela Deck
Canela Text
Domaine Display
Produkt
Proxima Nova
Publico Headline
Publico Text
Sauber Script
Quotes Caps
Quotes Script
I had this problem too. My resume was created in Pages on my Mac and uses Proxima Nova as the principle typeface for the document. Everything is fine on my Mac, but when I open the doc on my iPad I'm presented with the missing fonts warning and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it other than resolving the error by changing missing fonts to Helvetica (which I may have to do). Was there a fix above? If so I missed it.
I think it was twofold. Either
a. The iPad was downloading the font but still reporting that it wasn’t available OR
b. The iPad wasn’t downloading the font due to an OS issue.
Either way, the fix, since I’m running the latest beta, looks like it will be in the next release of the OS. However, you could try creating or opening a document using “Quotes Caps” or “Quotes Script”. It’s visually distinctive and something I hadn’t tried until AFTER I’d obtained the latest OS.
If the document shows you the “Quotes” letterforms and, when you edit it, it maintains the letterforms, then I believe the fonts are available, the app is just incorrectly “reporting” that they’re missing.
You should have seen Pages '09. It was much more powerful than the current apps.Pages is surprisingly powerful but is not very intuitive, but my only gripe with Pages is that they don’t have horizontal compression of letters but only the spacing between the letters.
I could probably retire my DTP software if they were just added that one feature.
Apple has no choice but to keep updating them. In the "dark ages", iWork '09 was a very powerful suite of tools. In the 8 or 9 years since the new apps were announced and released, we still don't have feature parity. There's still tons of missing features from Pages alone.
That's a feature lost when they dropped iWork '09. It use to be an interesting convergence of a word processor and a desktop publishing app.
I've been a long time MS Office user, only because I was using PCs/Windows for so long before I jumped into the Apple ecosystem and because I've dabbled in the past with switching back and forth between OSes (macOS + Windows) for my day to day uses.
Am tempted to give Pages another whirl as I'm just a casual user (blogging/desktop publishing mainly), but am still not sure it and the other apps could ever get me to give up my 365 subscription entirely.
Am tempted to give Pages another whirl as I'm just a casual user (blogging/desktop publishing mainly), but am still not sure it and the other apps could ever get me to give up my 365 subscription entirely.
I do
I use both a lot. Both Pages and Notes on all devices since they sync up so well and instantaneous.
I always have trouble understanding random generalized complaints like this. Are there features or functions that you cannot locate, or do you just want it to be identical to something else? Pages is incredibly intuitive to me. If you want it to appear like word, then no, but personally I don't find Word to be all that intuitive. The formatting on the side panels, genius compared to that mess of a ribbon bar.Pages is surprisingly powerful but is not very intuitive, but my only gripe with Pages is that they don’t have horizontal compression of letters but only the spacing between the letters.
I could probably retire my DTP software if they were just added that one feature.
Are you talking about kerning? People still use that I guess? I had thought that had gone the way of floppy drives, but your desire for it indicates that is not the case. Well because I have not used in over 20 years doesn't mean somebody else still uses it.
One of things I really like about it, (and truthfully, I haven't picked up that mess of word for 10 years, so maybe it is better now, but if it still has the ribbon bar, no thanks) you can add Numbers like tables and charts within the document itself, even formulas. If you use Numbers, it is a very similar UI and very intuitive. It all comes down to what you are familiar with, but I have found over the years, that one thing is not another thing, and no amount of wanting it to be will make it so, so you just have to go with what you have to use. I never would have picked Excel and Word, but the company did for me so I made due