Title says it all. Ideas?
Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Sorry, one more detail. This is a document that was created in AppleWorks 6, if that makes any difference. The only non-transparent importation issue I have seen is all the line spacing is changed, but I don't think that makes a difference to this problem.
You seem to have an auto-correction going, check your Preferences in Pages and turn it off.
Peter
I used AppleWorks for years and I continue to use it.
I use Pages daily since the delivery of iWork '08.
I never got the described behavior.
I tested with French keyboard, American keyboard and Extended American keyboard.
The only way which I found to get what you describe was to define a pair of strings for the Auto Substitution feature but as it's not a default pair, it was defined by somebody on your machine.
Maybe you work on a machine in which somebody installed a third party tool but from the other side of the ocean, I can't see what is installed in your mac.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 14 septembre 2011 14:33:39
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This is caused when you use certain old fonts from OS 9 instead of the modern ones in OS X. Get rid of duplicate fonts dated from the 1990's.
Tom, yes, this was it! I never thought to check other fonts, but it occurs with my old copy of Palantino and NOT in other fonts. Now, I have to replace Palantino or else reformat >100 documents with a new font. Thanks so much, and to the others who weighed in.
@PeterBreis, I wasn't able to find any sort of autocorrect for this string. The closest was "c/o", but turning all of them off didn't change anything.
@Yvan Koenig, Merci beaucoup pour ton aide, j'avais fait les mêmes tests que vous. I'll continue in English for the benefit of other readers. Do you use AppleWorks6 on a recent Mac OS? Because when I started using it in OS 10.6, lots of things broke (menu items stopped working) and there is a 10-15 second delay every 10 to 15 seconds during which the program becomes unresponsive. This makes it unusable for me. Do you know of a fix for these problems?
christopherfrommontreal west wrote:
Tom, yes, this was it! I never thought to check other fonts, but it occurs with my old copy of Palantino and NOT in other fonts. Now, I have to replace Palantino or else reformat >100 documents with a new font. Thanks so much, and to the others who weighed in.
If you didn't already did, download the free trial of iWork '09.
It will install a set of fonts which replace most of the old AppleWorks ones.
It may be why I was unable to reproduce your problem.
@Yvan Koenig, Merci beaucoup pour ton aide, j'avais fait les mêmes tests que vous. I'll continue in English for the benefit of other readers. Do you use AppleWorks6 on a recent Mac OS? Because when I started using it in OS 10.6, lots of things broke (menu items stopped working) and there is a 10-15 second delay every 10 to 15 seconds during which the program becomes unresponsive. This makes it unusable for me. Do you know of a fix for these problems?
I use AW 6.2.9 everyday under 10.6.8.
I got two kind of problems :
(1) Running PPC code via Rosetta is more critical than running a true PPC processor.
So, in databases I can't click in a field if it isn't entirely visible.
If I do that, the application quits.
(2) Applescripts must use the exact features described in the AppleScript dictionary.
For instance, the open command is described as requiring an alias to define the object to open.
On a true PPC machine,
open file "path:to:my:marvelous:document"
was accepted
Under Rosetta it's rejected and we can't code :
open ("path:to:my:marvelous:document" as alias)
I must use
--{code}
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
activate
open my make_alias("path:to:my:marvelous:document")
end tell
on make_alias(a_path)
return a_path as alias
end make_alias
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 14 septembre 2011 17:42:01
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typing o and / gives me a slashed o (ø) instead of the two characters. How can I stop this? I am a newbie to Pages.
