Pages cannot handle fonts

Question

Many users seem to be reporting the missing fonts error with Pages; however, the problem seems to be more fundamental. Pages has the same problem that AppleWorks and ClarisWorks also had. All three programs have a problem handling fonts. Pages for instance will invariably say that fonts I never used are missing, and then it proceeds to changes fonts throughout the document. This even occurs in simple documents with one font, no italics, no boldface, etc.
Worse still, pasting a ruler can cause Pages to change the font in the affected paragraph. This was also a defect in AppleWorks. Can we get this fixed, people? A word processor that cannot handle fonts reliably isn't much good, even if many other features are terrific, as they are in Pages. Who can afford to reformat a document every time he opens it?
Steve Aird

Answer 1

Steve. this forum is built upon people who try to help other people. We try to resolve issues which occur and offer solutions.
To do that we need more information.
What was the origin of the document? Was it from Word? There are some instances where Word embeds bullets (even though they are not used) for unknown reasons and the font used for those bullets is missing from the OS install.
Are the files from another computer? If so the font may not have been installed on your computer.
Did you do an upgrade recently or move to another computer? If you copied the iWork files from one computer to another, but not the fonts which were included, those fonts will be missing. Reinstall iWork and perrform the updating procedures through Software Update.
Do you have dupllicate fonts on your system? Sometimes fonts will have the same name and yet be different internally. Fonts reside in several places so they can cause confilcts. Use Fontbook to resolve these issues.
There are far more cases where Pages and Keynote are working properly than those who are having problems.
BTW. where are you pasting rulers from? I don't see that in the Pages manual. Just curious.