How to change default font in Numbers?

Question

Is it possible to somehow change the default font when creating new documents in Numbers from "Helvetica Neue" to just "Helvetica", size 11? Changing the font and saving the document as new template simply does not work since the font in newly created tables in the new document using the new template still falls back to "Helvetica Neue".

Answer 1

Here is an enhanced version.
You may use it with the three components of iWorks.
It is also available for free on my iDisk:
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
Download:
For_iWork:iWork '09:setiWork_defaultfont.zip
--[SCRIPT setiWork_defaultfont]
Si vous choisissez "Pages" vous verrez:
/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_Helvetica-Bold" = "Helvetica-Bold";
"FONT_Helvetica-Oblique" = "Helvetica-Oblique";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
La police utilisée par défaut dans les textes, les notes et les tables est celle dont le descripteur est "FONT_Helvetica"
éditez la ligne correspondante comme suit:
"FONT_Helvetica" = "nomDeVotrePolice";
Par exemple, pour utiliser Palatino, remplacez nomDeVotrePolice par "Palatino-Roman"
Enregistrez le fichier ainsi modifié par (cmd + S)
Vous trouverez plus bas une liste de noms de polices.
Si vous choisissez "Numbers" vous verrez:
/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "HelveticaNeue";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue-Bold" = "HelveticaNeue-Bold";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
La police utilisée par défaut dans les textes, les notes et les tables est celle dont le descripteur est "FONT_HelveticaNeue"
éditez la ligne correspondante comme suit:
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "nomDeVotrePolice";
Si vous choisissez "Keynote" vous verrez:
"STYLESeries2" = "Series_2";
"STYLE_None" = "Aucun";
"STYLESeries5" = "Series_5";
"STYLESeries3" = "Series_3";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"STYLE_Free Form" = "Format libre";
"STYLESeries1" = "Series_1";
"FONT_GillSans" = "GillSans";
"STYLE_Normal" = "Normal";
"STYLESeries0" = "Series_0";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
"STYLESeries4" = "Series_4";
La police utilisée par défaut dans les textes, les notes et les tables est celle dont le descripteur est "FONT_GillSans"
éditez la ligne correspondante comme suit:
"FONT_GillSans" = "nomDeVotrePolice";
If you choose "Pages" you will see:
/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_Helvetica-Bold" = "Helvetica-Bold";
"FONT_Helvetica-Oblique" = "Helvetica-Oblique";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
The font used as default for tables is the one whose descriptor is "FONT_Helvetica"
edit the line as:
"FONT_Helvetica" = "yourFontName";
For instance, to use Palatino, replace "yourFontName" by "Palatino-Roman"
Save the file (cmd + S)
If you choose "Numbers" you will see:
/* ----- Font Names */
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "HelveticaNeue";
"FONT_HelveticaNeue-Bold" = "HelveticaNeue-Bold";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
The font used as default for tables is the one whose descriptor is "FONT_HelveticaNeue"
edit the line as:
"FONT_HelveticaNeue" = "yourFontName";
If you choose "Keynote" you will see:
"STYLESeries2" = "Series_2";
"STYLE_None" = "Aucun";
"STYLESeries5" = "Series_5";
"STYLESeries3" = "Series_3";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"STYLE_Free Form" = "Format libre";
"STYLESeries1" = "Series_1";
"FONT_GillSans" = "GillSans";
"STYLE_Normal" = "Normal";
"STYLESeries0" = "Series_0";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
"STYLESeries4" = "Series_4";
The font used as default for tables is the one whose descriptor is "FONT_GillSans"
edit the line as:
"FONT_GillSans" = "yourFontName";
Here are some true font names:
Arial-Black
Arial-BoldItalicMT
Arial-BoldMT
Arial-ItalicMT
ArialHebrew
ArialHebrew-Bold
ArialMT
ArialNarrow
ArialNarrow-Bold
ArialNarrow-BoldItalic
ArialRoundedMTBold
ArialUnicodeMS
Didot
Didot-Bold
Didot-Italic
Georgia
Georgia-Bold
Georgia-BoldItalic
Georgia-Italic
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBlack
HelveticaNeue-UltraLight
HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItalic
HelveticaNeue-Light
HelveticaNeue-LightItalic
HelveticaNeue-Regular
HelveticaNeue-Italic
HelveticaNeue-Bold
HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic
Julius
LucidaGrande
LucidaGrande-Bold
Palatino-Roman
Palatino-Italic
Palatino-Bold
Palatino-boldItalic
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
5 mars 2009
on run
if my parleFrancais() then
set prompt1 to "Choisir l'application"
set prompt2 to "Choisir un modèle"
set prompt3 to "Choisir une localisation"
else
set prompt1 to "Choose the application"
set prompt2 to "Choose a template"
set prompt3 to "Choose a localization"
end if
choose the application *)
set theApp to choose from list {"Pages", "Numbers", "Keynote"} with prompt prompt1
if theApp is false then error -128
set theApp to item 1 of theApp
define some parameters *)
if theApp is "Pages" then
set allowed to {"com.apple.iWork.Pages.template", "com.apple.iWork.Pages.sfftemplate"}
set sub to "Templates"
set theStrings to "Localizable.strings"
else if theApp is "Numbers" then
set allowed to {"com.apple.iWork.Numbers.template", "com.apple.iWork.Numbers.sfftemplate"}
set sub to "Templates"
set theStrings to "Localizable.strings"
else (* it is "Keynote" *)
set allowed to {"com.apple.iWork.Keynote.kth", "com.apple.iWork.Keynote.sffkth"}
set sub to "Themes"
set theStrings to "fontsAndText.strings"
end if
choose the template *)
set p2f to (path to applications folder as text) & "iWork '09:" & theApp & ".app:Contents:Resources:" & sub
set p2f to (choose file with prompt prompt2 default location (p2f as alias) of type allowed) as text
choose the localization folder *)
set p2f to p2f & "Contents:Resources"
set p2f to (choose folder default location (p2f as alias) with prompt3) as text
open the localizable.strings file *)
tell application "Finder"
set nb to count of (files of folder p2f whose name starts with "localizable")
if nb = 1 then duplicate file theStrings of folder p2f (* as there is no backup, duplicate "localizable.strings" for safe *)
open file theStrings of folder p2f
end tell -- Finder
end run
--=====
on parleFrancais() (* Check if Pages is running in French *)
local z
try
tell application "Pages" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z = "Annuler")
end parleFrancais
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 8 mars 2009 13:07:38)