Font used in iOS Document Viewer

Hi, after doing a few Google searches there seems to be very little on the web of this issue.
When viewing documents (.doc etc.) is there a way to change the font it is displayed in? I find the Serif font very disorientating on such a small screen and would prefer a simple Sans-Serif. Is this at all possible?
Thanks

Tim Krynicki wrote:
Also, is there a way to install more fonts in iOS Pages?
No. But you can ask Apple to add that (clearly desirable) capability via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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CS2- How to get the fonts used in a document ?

Hi,
Can anyone tell how to find the the fonts used in the document directly without iterating through the text art used in the document.BCOZ if i iterate through each text frame or character my plugin works very slowly.I want to speed up the process of finding & replacing the fonts like wat we do manually in the "Type-> Find Font" menu thru my code.
Please post ur comments on this .If there is no direct option to find &replace the fonts used in the document ,pls let me know the simplest logic of finding & replacing all occurances of a font in a doc so that my process of doing this should be faster.
Thanks in advance.
myRiaz

As far as I know, there's no way to get a list of fonts in use in a document without iterating over the document and compiling a list by asking every piece of art.
If you want to trigger 'Type > Find Font' there might be a way to invoke that using Actions (AIActionManager.h). I'm not sure if that would help or not though.
This probably isn't very helpful depending on what you're doing, but I think this is meant to be handled by using character styles. That way you can change a style and update any related text instantly. Not much help though if you're just trying to write a S&R font plugin.

List fonts used in a document, search by font.

Help! I cannot find a way to list, by name, of the fonts used (past tense) in a document. Like in the document properties: where the word and character count is.
Example: The author used Arial, Arial Condensed and OCR A in her document. I would like to see a list of three font names. If I have (or don't have) those fonts is outside the scope of this request.
Simply smashing the styles of a document and then restylng by hand is not working so well for me. Most of the documents used manual formatting instead of styles too!
Second: I can search and replace text if it had a font applied to it, but I cannot specify the font to search on. ANY font will be match and changed to the 'replace' style. Any solution?
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John Fields

Interesting request and a bit of a programing challenge but here is what I have come up with. Try it on some of the documents that you need to deal with and let me know how it does.
Sub FontsUsed 'Version 1 John Vigor 4/25/06
'List fonts used in Writer document. Appears to work in normal text,
'Sections, normal Tables, and Frames. Will currently crash on a Table
'within a Table.
oDoc = ThisComponent
Dim fonts as Integer: Dim aFonts(1)
oTC = oDoc.Text.createTextCursor
oTC.goRight(1,true) : CurrentFont = oTC.charFontName
fonts = fonts + 1 : aFonts(fonts) = CurrentFont
REM Do "normal" text.
partEnum = oDoc.Text.createEnumeration
PartEnumerator(partEnum,CurrentFont,fonts,aFonts())
REM Do Frames.
oFrames = oDoc.getTextFrames
If oFrames.Count > 0 then
fonts = fonts + 1 : ReDim Preserve aFonts(fonts)
aFonts(fonts) = "NEW FONTS, IF ANY, FOUND IN FRAMES:"
For I = 0 to oFrames.Count - 1
thisFrame = oFrames.getByIndex(I)
partEnum = thisFrame.createEnumeration
PartEnumerator(partEnum,CurrentFont,fonts,aFonts())
Next
EndIf
REM Prepare list.
For I = 1 to fonts
s = s & aFonts(I) & Chr(10)
Next
iAns = MsgBox(s,4,"FONTS FOUND. Create font list document?")
If iAns = 7 then
End
Else
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oVC = NewDoc.CurrentController.getViewCursor
oVC.String = s : oVC.collapseToEnd
EndIf
End Sub
Sub PartEnumerator(partEnum,CurrentFont,fonts,aFonts())
While partEnum.hasMoreElements
thisElement = partEnum.nextElement
If thisElement.supportsService("com.sun.star.text.Paragraph") then
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ElseIf thisElement. supportsService ("com.sun.star.text.TextTab le") then
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   Rows = thisElement.getRows.Count - 1
   For C = 0 to Cols
    For R = 0 to Rows
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     cellEnum = thisCell.createEnumeration
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    Next
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EndIf
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Sub PortionEnumerator(portionEnum,CurrentFont,fonts,aFonts())
Dim found as Boolean
While portionEnum.hasMoreElements
thisPortion = portionEnum.nextElement
thisFont = thisPortion.charFontName
If thisFont <> CurrentFont then
For I = 1 to fonts
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Next
If found then
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EndIF
EndIf
Wend
End Sub

[JS][CS4]List fonts used in the Document

Hi to all scripting gurus,
I have this following script that returns a list of fonts used in the document:
function fontused(){               var fontscoll = document.fonts;               for(var i = 0; i < fontscoll.length; i++){                       var font = fontscoll[i];                       alert(font.name);                } }
The above is working OK my problem is that it also list the fonts used in the placed illustrator files (.eps). Is there some kind of parameter or something that i can use so that it only list the fonts used in the text?
-CharlesD

Charles
Doesn't time fly?
This will give you the idea, if when you find more exceptions add them in a likewise manner.
The "if" statements check that tables, headers, etc. exists otherwise an error will be throw.
Enjoy
Trevor
P.s. I had planned on updating the script after David highlighted the problem, just didn't get round to it.
// Script to find fonts in documents which are not just in content pasted from illustrator file
// By Trevor http://forums.adobe.com/message/4807396#4807396
var   myFonts="",
        uniqueFonts = {}, n;
if (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.length > 0) fontsIn (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().appliedFont)
if (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.length > 0) fontsIn (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().appliedFont)
if (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().footnotes.length > 0) fontsIn (app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().appliedFont)
for (n in uniqueFonts) myFonts+=(uniqueFonts[n])+"\r";
alert(myFonts)
function fontsIn (item)
        var l = item.length;
        while (l--) uniqueFonts[item[l].name] = item[l].name;

Listing all fonts used in a document?

   As I understand it, TextFonts is a collection of all fonts available to Illustraot. Is there a collection of all fonts used in the open document? Or would I have to step through every textFrame an create that list myself?

I don't know why and how you write error log, so I only add a single alert after all. "xmpString" and "XMP library" are two different methods, you only need one of then.
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Thanks Steve. I guess it shouldn't be a problem then. Both of the documents would have been created by aperture and therefore be of the same resolution to start with.
One more question if I might: I'm test-driving Acrobat Pro (don't know much about it yet). I've been using Acrobat standard for simple things like adding/replacing pages. Would Acrobat standard save at the same quality of the original document or is there some loss of quality there versus using Acrobat Pro?
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