Adding a font to pages for Ipad

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Adding a font to pages for Ipad

How do I load a new font into Pages for Ipad? I work with documents to learn ancient Greek and when I import them from my Mac I lose the Greek font and wind up with the English transliteration?

iPad, Other OS

Posted on Apr 3, 2010 2:57 PM

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Answer 1

Newton2x

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Aug 9, 2017 7:28 PM in response to rofthorax

I wish I could sell Apple Kool-Aid inside of Apple forums. These confirmation biased posters would buy enough to pay for my kids college tuitions many times over.

Apple supports Adobe PDF apps in iOS which support fonts loaded into PDF documents which renders properly and is editable (the entire font file is called on for editing) in the app that's running inside of the same application layer pages operates in.

There's no justifiable reason, in today's iOS programming enviornment, for fonts to behave this way in pages for iOS.

That being said, the fourtran code referred to as "fourth" referenced by the poster who is my target market for Kool-Aid, may be correct in referring to 50-year-old program in environments. That's not applicable to this thread.

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 10, 2017 6:20 AM in response to Newton2x

Newton2x wrote:

There's no justifiable reason, in today's iOS programming enviornment, for fonts to behave this way in pages for iOS.

I'm not sure what you are referring to, since the post you're responding to is 5 years old. But, in case it is of use, there have been several apps available that let users install fonts in iOS for use in Pages and other apps since iOS 7.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 3, 2010 3:37 PM in response to jamjel

You can't add any fonts. Pages reads standard Unicode greek just fine. You must be using something with an outdated legacy encoding. Send me an example to verify if you want (tom at bluesky dot org).

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Answer 4

Apr 4, 2010 6:07 AM in response to jamjel

Yeah, I've got some documents using special fonts, I'd love to add them. I do hope Apple corrects this problem. Otherwise Pages isn't much good for what I need to do.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2010 6:22 AM in response to Gary Meyers

Yeah, I've got some documents using special fonts, I'd love to add them.

Best move them to Unicode (if that is the issue in your case), as support for other stuff is rapidly disappearing everywhere and cannot be assumed any more.

I do hope Apple corrects this problem. Otherwise Pages isn't much good for what I need to do.

Tell them here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages_ipad.html

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Answer 6

Apr 4, 2010 6:27 AM in response to Gary Meyers

IPad is an amazing 'magical' device and all but it needs to support user fonts if iPad is to be used as part of the iWork flow, either there is some way of adding them through iTunes or they are somehow embedded in the iWork file. I'm sure Apple will find some 'magical' way of solving this major oversight in the very near future.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2010 6:34 AM in response to Sean Grazette

I'm sure Apple will find some 'magical' way of solving this major oversight in the very near future.

I would not count on it. It's a closed OS just like iPhone/iPod, where many have wanted to do the same thing, and no means to add fonts has been provided in the years they have been available. Nor has font embedding ever been available in Apple apps.

Temporary downloading of fonts "embedded" in webpages would be easy to add, however, as the full OS X Safari already supports this.

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dwb

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Apr 4, 2010 6:54 AM in response to Sean Grazette

If you are thinking of the iPad as a full-service computer (so to speak) then yes, I can see that font support and adding user fonts is an important feature. However, I don't view the iPad in that fashion. For me, just being able to start work or continue working on a document when I'm out in the field somewhere is a big bonus.

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Answer 9

May 24, 2010 12:57 PM in response to dwb

Continuing to work on a document in the field is great, unless that document contains some fonts that are not supported on the iPad.

To me, this is a nuisance, nothing more. But it would be nice if the iPad supported additional fonts.

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Answer 10

May 24, 2010 1:40 PM in response to Snowy_River

I have seldom worked with a passed-around word doc that didn't lose the original fonts along the way, unless it started as Times or Arial. When I get my original docs back with corrections, there are usually a few different fonts added and the one I started with was not included.

Sure, it would be nice for Pages to have a ton of fonts, but I don't think it's a necessity.

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Answer 11

Jun 4, 2010 6:57 AM in response to Kevin Wolfe3

For you it might be "nice to have", Kevin. But for me it is an important necessity. I'd love to work on documents for my company. Now, we use a custom font and each and every document is required to be created using this font. No Arial, no Helvetica, just our font.

The way it is now means I cannot create or work on documents on my iPad without reediting them later on a Mac. Bummer.

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Hyperpix

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Aug 1, 2010 10:16 AM in response to jamjel

I don't expect Apple to modify the iPad's OS to allow for font installation. It would be a matter of days before users would flood the support site asking why the iPad is not reacting to their finger after installing 50 new fonts.

What I feel would be a PERFECT solution, is to modify the Mac version of Keynote to allow Font Embedding and then make that embedding compatible with Keynote for iPad. That way each character set would be loaded onto memory on a need-to-display-basis.

Either that, or Apple should create a proprietary font format (available through the App store at .99¢ per font :^) and have a FONT section under preferences on which you can install up to, lets say, 5 fonts, which would become available across all text editing apps.

All I know is, I NEED CENTURY GOTHIC!!! Please!!!!!!

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Answer 13

Feb 28, 2012 5:56 AM in response to Hyperpix

I agree we need Century Gothic!!!

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Answer 14

roe_xx

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Jun 10, 2012 7:06 AM in response to konqui.kubuntu

I always use century gothic and am so devastated that thenipad doesn't have it on its iWork apps! I hope they update this and let us download this update from iTunes for free

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Answer 15

Jun 22, 2012 10:54 AM in response to roe_xx

There is a tool called plutil that can convert binary plists to

ascii/XML plists. The source is available from libimobiledevice.org.

Using it, it is possible to add fonts to the iPad 3 by editing the

font plists.

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