Italics in Pages

I can't seem to get paragraphs/documents to display italic text on the screen. Even though the italics icon is highlighted in the format section of the toolbar and pull down menu, the text does not change on screen. All other formatting options (bold, underline, etc.) seem to work fine. Is anyone having this problem?

This isn't a problem. Pages uses only those fonts that have italics and bold (and combinations thereof) designed for them. No faux fonts. You'll note if you look though the others fonts in the Font pane that some have these variations and some don't. Your solution is to choose another font.
Walt

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Looking for Chicago Italic Font

Aloha gang:
As you know, Pages only has our good friend Chicago font in the regular face.
I have tons of prior work/logo/webpages made via Appleworks using the italic & bold versions. Spent several hours googling but not finding.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THIS FONT ???
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hullo Don:
Actually I don't have Chicago in my font collection with Pages at all. From your post I assume that the regular version must be included with the "Classic" version of Mac Os, which (not having any legacy files) I have chosen not to load.
You would seem to be correct in your observation that Pages will not synthesize (or "fake") italics by simply obliquing the regular font, whereas Appleworks would seem to do this. I tried Andale on both to check.
A comprehensive selection of "Chicago" fonts can be found on www.Fonts.com, however. If you know the font, you will recognise whether these include your old friend, or are simply a different collection under the same name. I suspect, however, that what was included in Os 9 might well have been just a subset of the complete family, as bundled fonts not uncommonly are.
Notwithstanding, the genuine italics (which will be better designed, from a typographical standpoint) may not completely answer your need. If your hope was to import Appleworks including Chicago italics into Pages, the italicised fonts may not necessarily be recognised even if you bought and loaded and installed the true italic version. Having no Appleworks documents, I am unable to experiment with whether Pages will recognise the italicised font as belonging to a Chicago font it knows. If it does, the import would probably not be italicised - but if you had the genuine italic font you could then reformat the original obliqued font with it
On the other hand, if the currently available set is the one you know, and you installed it in your Pages accessible collection, you could "paste and match style" (having established a style in Chicago Italic) into Pages documents. The result, if the fonts indeed match, would not be identical - but would match the style of your previous documents except with the typeface discernibly refined. A true italic font is drawn afresh, with further adjustments to the regular font than just obliquing it. Sometimes it is altogether different, too; e.g., Didot - or most distinctly of all, Joannah.
I also recall, from a post many moons ago, that there are also third party font manipulation programs that will allow you to synthesize an italic font from a regular one. Even these, though, might pose some problems with the font names clashing. The alternative is that Pages would fail to recognise the obliqued regular font, and return a "could not open ... missing font" message or the like.
The post I distantly recall did encounter and resolve this problem. As I recall, it was found necessary to rename the generated italic font to distinguish it from the original.
Be prepared, then, for a bit of tweaking, even if you do find the Fonts.com collection includes what you want. Otherwise, maybe another poster might remember the font manipulation program that was involved in the post I am sorry I dimly recall, or otherwise be familiar with a suitable font manipulation program to which to refer you.
Your best bet might well boil down to i) whether the currently available Chicago italic is the font you're after, and ii) whether some typographical upgrading of your previous materials is better or worse for you than minutely conserving their original appearance.
The fact that fake italics were ever considered acceptable in the first place suggests that few might notice the difference, other than in examples like the above. But (IMHO) Pages is pernickety just where it should be. It pays scrupulous regard to typography - which is really the root of its charm.
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Italics is not working in part of my Pages document.

Italics is not working in one part of my Pages document.
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Italicized text in Pages 5.2.2 won't show up in exported PDF

I built a resume in pages within a table to control placement of elements on a single page. I usually export to PDF, because exporting to .docx throws off formatting. But when I export to PDF, italicized text won't appear. Why?

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Is there a method to retain italics when exporting to ePub?
Thanks

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I have an original iPad and downloaded the new operating system. Now' I cannot write on my Contacts or Calendar apps, and my Pages app (purchased) has lost the ability to use the bold, underline, and italics functions. Does anyone know how to fix these

I have an original iPad and downloaded the new operating system. Now, I cannot add to my contacts or calendar apps, and Pages ( which I purchased) is not allowing me to use the bold, underline, and italics functions. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

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Can they be preserved? How?
I love Pages 4.1 otherwise. This makes me very sad.

When you insert a piece of text using Times Italic, you no longer use the font :
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I'm just a little bent to purchase commercial software with the idea that it will be as bitchen as my new MBP, and have a 1995 problem like this hit me upside the 32 page, footnoted, and heavily cited article as I go to export & send to the editor. I had similar issues in college (~1995), and am incensed that exportability of Apple word processing documents to MS Word is not closer to perfect sixteen years later.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 26 octobre 2011 18:12:38
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I often work in Pages '08 with .doc files from colleagues. These invariably come in Times New Roman 12pt. When i export my files in word format, all formatting (bolds, italics etc.) has disappeared when they open the files on their own computers. If, however, I ask them to send back the file and opens it, the formatting is there. This seems to happen only when using Times New Roman, not i.e. Helvetica or (simply) Times. This is a very annoying bug, if that is what it is, which makes it hard to use Pages together with MS Word users. Anyone knows a way around this problem?

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