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
Thank you. I reported the problem there since there was not any entry about this bug 😉
(Please ignore "This solved my question" above. No idea how I can activate my own comments that it fixed my own questions …)
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
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! 😀
Of course when I wrote that in the fall of 2012 I had no idea how hard they were working on removing things. Pages 5 does finally recognize the Color Emoji font, but that is not much in the way of compensation...
Wondering out loud if you could create a new character style from those proper small caps and then import that style into later versions of Pages.
Definitely still a problem in Pages 5.01.
Peter
Wondering out loud if you could create a new character style from those proper small caps and then import that style into later versions of Pages.
This would be a great idea but I lack expertise …
Don't see how that would work.
Unicode fonts contain the necessary glyphs for the small caps.
Apple's text layout framework ATSUI does the work of substituting in the correct glyphs for the necessary characters. So it gets a Capital letter from the font for the first letter if necessary and a small cap character for the remaining lower case letters in the circumstance of "Small Caps" being the applied styling. That requires that the hooks have been written in place in Pages' code.
That is what appears to be missing/broken in the later versions of Pages/OSX.
Pages 5 doesn't even import external styles, as Pages '09 did, so I can't see what it is going to get from a previous version of Pages, nor how it could use it, when its code has been totally rewritten.
Peter
Thank you.
The import of the Small Capital letters of opentype fonts into Pages 5.01 doesn’t work but the import into Pages 4.2. or 4.3. works.
I wonder if Apple will ever correct this bug …
To Apple it probably ins't a bug! It probably ins't an over sight either!
To Apple it probably ins't a bug! It probably ins't an over sight either!
Ha ha. Empathy with Apple. Very good.
From a logical point of view if it is neither a bug nor an over sight it follows Apple has deliberately included the non-functioning of a feature that has worked for some years without error for a purpose. Then what purpose is this?
Who knows? Sometimes I think Apple do changes just to make a change and get more money, not to increase functionality.
Pages 5 is basically a companion application for the iPad version, so there isn't much point suporting advanced typograhy that is not compatible with the iOS Pages.
Jeff Shenk wrote:
Pages 5 is basically a companion application for the iPad version, so there isn't much point suporting advanced typograhy that is not compatible with the iOS Pages.
But iOS Pages can certainly display typographical small caps created by OS X apps.
The problem with the Small Caps and Capital letter is now also in the new OS X Yosemite and Pages 5.5., Numbers 3.5., and Keynote 6.5. It is the third OS X where the bug is included. I sent in the last two years at least 10 feedbacks to Apple, including via Developer platform, the official Feedback form and the Feedbackmanager of Yosemite Beta …
The problem is definitely with the particular version of OS X.
Pages '09 also has problems with small caps in Mavericks and Yosemite.
All versions of Pages are using the system for the fonts.
Peter
Small caps do work in TextEdit in Mavericks and Yosemite, don't they?
No Small Caps in Pages 4.2. do you know any bug fix or workaround?
