Letters disappearing on Pages file when I print!! Help!

To prod a little more. Which MacOs version do you have? Pages version?

My Edwardardian script is version 1.5 (a MS Word font). You could open the Font book and validate your fonts. See if the Edwardian is valid.

Thanks.

I am OS X 10.6.8

Pages 09, version 4.1 (923)

The Font validated.

If you have a vector drawing program like Adobe Illustrator, where you can outline the font, test the faulty letter by outlining it.

There are badly constructed fonts, even Adobe had some, where a character was pasted on top of itself, which in PostScript then made it negative.

Peter

Why doesn't it work on Tokyos machine when it does on mine? Wha ts the difference apart from T. having Pages 4.1 and I 4.0.5?

I only have CS5, so no Illustrator.

I used PhotoShop, Wrote text with an O in it. Saved to PDF.

The O was correctly displayed.

CS5 contains Illustrator so do you mean you only have Photoshop CS5?

Peter

fruhulda

That would be presuming what's on Tokyo's Mac is the same as on yours.

I have currently Pages '09 v4.3 running on OSX 10.8.3 and the Edwardian Script ITC font appears and prints correctly in PDF.

That is both upper and lower case O and zero.

I also tested it in Illustrator, same thing. No overlapping outlines that I can discover.

Photoshop as part of the Adobe CS suite has its own Font Folder separate from Pages' OSX font folders, so you'd have to track down which font is actually being used where.

Peter

I have CS5, I guess I did not install Illustrator. Just the applications I need.

Why would you not use Illustrator?

What keyboard are you using?

Peter

I have a MacBook Pro. Using the laptop's keyboard.

Reminder. When I opened the PDF in Acrobat Pro the O is covered with a vertical rectangle. So it would seem that Acrobat Pro cannot read the PDF. Pages displays the O correctly, the PDF does not show the O. The spacing of the text is correct.

I will try the same on a MacBook Air running 10.7. Though no Pages. I will report back in a few hours.

Not the physical keyboard, the system keyboard.

Is it possible you have accidentally switched keyboards?

Whatever it is, a non-keyboard character is being referenced.

Peter

UPDATE.

I used a MacBook Air, OS X 10.7

I wrote text using the Edwardian Script ITC containing a lower case O in TextEdit.

I used Print -> Save as PDF, to create a PDF file.

The O was correctly represented.

I do not have Pages on the MacBook Air, but when I did the above on my MacBook Pro using TextEdit the O did not appear in the PDF. This would seem to make Pages not an issue.

Any thoughts?

Thanks Peter,

Both Macs have English and Japanese input methods.

The System Preferences -> Keyboard do not have a select keyboard on my OS release. No references to the letter O.

I did a screen grab of all the alphbetical characters and all display correctly. It is only the MacBook Pro, 10.6 that does not show the O when saving to PDF.

Is there anything else I can try? It looks more like there is a problem with the PDF conversion. Though in the archived Discussions the letter O has been mentioned.

So if I have understood you right it isn't really a Pages problem but a Preview problem?????

I am not sure.

PDF is a native format in OS X. So it looks like all applications can create a PDF using OS X. Leading one to believe that all applications would act the same way. Which was the case using Pages and TextEdit.

So it looks like it is a OS X issue.

My OS X 10.6 has the problem but OS X 10.7 works correctly when creating a PDF.