Another reason why pages may not be suitable for high end dtp

hi
my company has been using Pages to lay out a 80 page graphic rich publication with 2 or 3 authors none of whom are graphic design trained. We previously used quark. pages is much better and faster in so many ways BUT we ran into 2 big problems which I am reengaging with now .
1) a big doc got very slow on G4 machines used by some in the team.
2) (and this is the killer) we found if you open a pages doc on a different mac then all the layout goes way out, I mean way out, ie text shows up on entirely different pages. and any fixed on page graophics will be on different pages and it is an absolute nightmare to fix.
this is with page set up at the same (A4) and no changes made to the file at all.
It may be due to a difference in the fonts installed on the different machines but it is really troubling and we couldnt find a way of sorting iut out. it caused us total nightgmares as it emerged when we were under deadline pressure so we ended having to use one machine for pages layout and output a pdf for use across the team.
we are now looking at altering this doc. any help gratefully received in getting a Pages doc that is consistent across several macs.

I am not sur eexactly what the mechanism is whereby font differences on two machines will cause this.
There is no information about the choice of font file format, but in general there are three components of a 'font' as follows :
1. the graphics format for the glyphs (in practice either TrueType or Type 1), and
2. the first level shaping in the CMAP Character Map tag along with first level spacing of the line layout, and
3. the second level shaping in the MORT/MORX/GSUB tag along with second level spacing of the line layout.
Composition can reflow if any of the above factors change on any of the affected workstations. One way of trying to troubleshoot this would be to point all copies of Apple Pages to the same location for type, a location on a local network volume. This should be possible (I should think - don't have multiple Macs on OS X).
Also, I do not know where Apple Pages stores information about the settings in the Typography Palette. If one workstation applies complex composition using MORT/MORX/GSUB line layout, and this information is not included for other workstations, then the devil is in the door.
Which, if memory serves, was a point noted by Seybold a decade ago for advanced line layout.
Best,
Henrik
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