Font problem in Pages

Hello all,
I installed some new fonts (Trajan, Minion and Caflisch if you want to know), working great in for example textedit,
BUT in Pages when I change some text to these new fonts, the text is replaced with other letters !
The change is depending of the font (can change), and also the space between letters becomes fixed (small letters = too much space, big letters will overwrite themselves)
for example "hello" in standard fonts becomes "jgnnq" in Minion Pro.
I read several related posts, deleted iwork font cache in library, restarted everything, but still not working
Thanks !

Are these Mac TruType fonts, Type 1, or OpenType?
When you say that you installed them, other than placing them in your home/Library/Fonts folder, what did you do?
Reboot your Mac with the shift key depressed until you get to the login screen. This will have rebuilt your font cache. See if this fixes the issue.

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