Is it possible to set the default font in Pages with Workgroup Manager?

School district. We use iWorks '09 (currently) and several teachers would like the default font for all students to be a specific font (Comic Sans because of the shape of the letter 'a' and the number '4').
I know about creating the template and using the template, but that must be done for all student accounts, and must be done again for any incoming new students.
I would prefer there to be a way of setting this in WorkGroup Manager? I don't see that it is possible though. Or am I missing something?

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Hey,
I was just wondering if there is a way to set the default font to whatever you want. It is especially frustrating for footnotes (no matter how many times you change the font of your footnotes, every subsequent footnote is created in the default Helvetica).
I've looked around in Help and such but can't find any option to set the default font.
Thank you!
Jesse.

Jessiah87 wrote:
Hey,
I was just wondering if there is a way to set the default font to whatever you want. It is especially frustrating for footnotes (no matter how many times you change the font of your footnotes, every subsequent footnote is created in the default Helvetica).
I've looked around in Help and such but can't find any option to set the default font.
I described several time ways to do that.
It requires surgery in the index.xml file describing the used template.
Assuming that the used template is Blank.template.
Create a new document using it.
Save it as my_Blank.pages.
Using the scheme which I described many times, open its index.xml file.
To do that I use the free TextWrangler.
Search for "footnote" to reach this block of code :
You see the entry spelled <sf:fontName/>
Edit it as :
<sf:fontName>
<sf:string sfa:string="LucidaGrande"/>
</sf:fontName>
to get :
Of course, you may use an other fontname.
The rule is to use the official internal fontname.
I already posted a long list of such names.
Save the edited index.xml file
If the original document contained a index.xml.gz file, remove it so that when you will open the doc it will be forced to use the edited index.
Create a new document
Leave it empty and save it as a custom template : my_Blank.template in the dedicated folder.
Each time you will create a document starting from this template, the footnotes will be automatically created using LucidaGrande
Some lines below the fontName descriptor is the fontSize one.
The default one is :
<sf:fontSize>
<sf:number sfa:number="10" sfa:type="f"/>
</sf:fontSize>
You may edit it as
<sf:fontSize>
<sf:number sfa:number="9" sfa:type="f"/>
</sf:fontSize>
or an other integer value so the footnotes will default to this fontSize.
Of course, double check what you do.
When you will be satisfied of the result, maybe you will wish to edit the inthebox template.
It may be done but it's an other story.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 6 mars 2011 21:50:14

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both are String entries.

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