Hi there,
does anybody know a bug fix for Pages 4.2. so that one can use the small capital option of opentype fonts via the typography panel (cmd+T)?
I tried to reinsall the previous pages version on Mountain Lion which was free from this bug, but Mountain Lion does not accept the former Pages version either.
Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, App Store
mijägo wrote:
Hi there,
does anybody know a bug fix for Pages 4.2. so that one can use the small capital option of opentype fonts via the typography panel (cmd+T)?
I tried to reinsall the previous pages version on Mountain Lion which was free from this bug, but Mountain Lion does not accept the former Pages version either.
Thanks in advance!
Thought I would illustrate your point. These graphics represent the same open type font - Adobe Source Sans Pro. The images are appropriately annotated to distinguish typography options available within Pages '09 v4.2 and TextEdit v1.8. The ‘+‘ behind 10.8.2 indicates that the recent Supplement has been installed. Clearly Pages needs some work - cough.
Thank you.
I made some screenshots too. Though Pages 4.2. cannot acitivate the Small Caps, TextEdit under Mountain Lion can. It's even possible to mark a text in Pages, "activate" small caps and copy and paste it into TextEdit and then TextEdit shows the Small Caps while Pages does not.
One can simulate small caps from the Format > Font > Capitalization menu hiearchy. This will take selected lower case, and with a 2pt reduction, convert to all caps.
Further font reduction ( ⌘ - ) or increase ( ⌘ + ) can be applied on the small caps selection.
True, but these are only Fake Small Caps! Typogographers won't use or suggest to use them.
If I remember right, you identified this bug last August already. It's unfortunate that Apple does not move to fix these things (also Pages still cannot display Apple Color Emoji, over a year after this font was included in OS X). I think the only solution to move to other apps.
True. I reported it to Apple's bugreporter and sent feedback via the Pages' feedback page. Nothing happened. Now I am looking for an alternative But this seems not to exist … Mellel does the job but is a bit too complicated for my taste … I would prefer to find a way to continue with Pages …
The situation with Keynote 6.0 and Pages 5.0. Now there is NO support for proper small-caps! Even cutting and pasting from TextEdit fails (as do apple provided fonts like Hoefler Pro which used to work.)
True, the new iWorks does not support true small caps either. The bug is still there. And on top of it now even the Hoefler font does not work with small caps. So one more problem. But there is more to say: there is also no grafic processor any more so that you can combine text boxes … it is as if Apple wants to kick out all people who were enthusistic about their typography support and high quality products.
The new iWorks might be good for the mass markets or baby text processor users but not for people who want to work in a professional way with them. I always prefered to make posters/documents in Pages instead of InDesign but this time seems to be past.
I cannot understand how Apple can claim the current iWorks release would be "Die beste Textverarbeitung, die je entwickelt wurde." (this message pooped up after I installed Pages 5.0, something like "The best text editor that has ever been developed.") Maybe I am just silent I fear to get sarcastic …
I, too, am disappointed about Pages lack of true small cap support.
Bean lacks styles but has good typeography. Pages has styles but lacks good typography. Super.
In fact, I just noticed that common ligatures do not appear in the text, either, despite turning them on.
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Here's a possible workaround.
If you have an old Pages document that contains some proper typographical small caps, open it in Pages '09 under your current OS. Hopefully, you will find that the small caps still look OK. If so, copy at least one small cap character from this document and paste it into a new Pages '09 document. Then type your additional small caps just to the right of the pasted ones. (And then go back and delete the pasted ones.)
This works for me. I'm using Pages 4.1, which I brought it over to Mavericks (10.9.1). I had the same problem as you had with Pages 4.2 under Mountain Lion. Fortunately, I happened to have some old documents containing small caps that were created with Pages 4.1 under Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and I stumbled onto this clumsy workaround.
I might add that, once I've copied my small cap "starter" into a new document and added additional small caps text, I can change the font and/or size of the new small caps without losing their small caps attribute.
Perhaps this solution, or some variation of it, will work for you.
Tom Gewecke wrote:
If I remember right, you identified this bug last August already. It's unfortunate that Apple does not move to fix these things (also Pages still cannot display Apple Color Emoji, over a year after this font was included in OS X). I think the only solution to move to other apps.
To be fair Tom, Apple has been busy implementing the very long list of feature removals and other bugs that Users apparently requested! 😀
Peter
Thank you, excellent!
I remember some weeks ago in a hurry I applied this approach by using an old document, copied and pasted the small caps into the new document, changing the fonts, and it worked. But I didn’t put more attention to it or made it a workaround …
I know used the trick based on your comment again and made an template so that the workaround can be applied now in all cases where I need it.
Thanks a lot for this workaround and your comment!
Priceless, Peter.
To be fair Tom, Apple has been busy implementing the very long list of feature removalsand other bugs that Users apparently requested! 😀
Peter
Do you tease us or is this true? Where can I find those lists?
No Small Caps in Pages 4.2. do you know any bug fix or workaround?
