Arial font situation

i have to spend 150 dollars for microsoft office.

You might also try the free OpenOffice. Unfortunately it's really not realistic to expect that any other app will ever totally duplicate the compatibility of MS Office with itself.

But I doubt anyone can even understand what you are talking about regarding your Arial font problem without more detailed explanation here and a screenshot. So you might try that as well.

Bymyself88 wrote:
Why does Pages 09 render Arial in a horrible way?

No, Arial works fine in Pages.

Another Question: How can I delete a draft i made for bills? It looks horrible (arial...). I made a new draft and don't need this one anymore. It is saved as a draft in pages... when I click I just can open it. Not delete it.

You can't delete a file/document from Pages or any application but Finder. In Finder go to the folder where you save the document. Select it and move it to the trash. Delete it from there.

btw: I also do not believe that a session with an apple-boy in an appleshop for lots of money will be of help. They are for sure not specialized on Pages/font stuff...

If you newly bought the computer you have several month right to AppleCare support. You can phone them.

If Arial look ghastly you can open Fontbook and validate it to see if it has any problems. Fontbook is in the Application folder.

Do give us more details about when you bought the computer, iWork/Pages, which version of Pages you have (should be 4.0.3), the documents you proofread are they created in another application? PC application? etc.?

Hi Bymyself88

Welcome to the forum. 🙂

The Arial that is supplied with OSX renders perfectly on my machine in Pages.

You have not sourced this Arial font from your PC by any chance? ie it is an old style PC .ttf font? The ones with the cryptic name in CAPITAL.TTF letters?

Either that or you have it turned off in FontBook for some reason.

Are you opening .doc files from PCs and getting a font warning as you open?

Then replace the Arial formatting in the document with the Mac version.

Getting rid of the Bill file is a matter of finding it wherever you saved it on your hard drive and dragging it to the trash. What do you mean by "Draft" anyway, do you mean template, which would have been saved to your template folder?

You do not have to pay for support, you are entitled to free telephone support from Apple for installation and initial problems with new Macs for the first 3 months. 3 years if you sensibly got AppleCare.

Peter

Then replace the font in the style with the Apple Arial font.

Peter

Next time ring the Australian Support line. 🙂

Peter