Keynote (and Pages, Numbers) 2013 Crashes on startup

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At least for me, iWork '09 apps were moved to an iWork '09 folder, and the new apps were loaded into the main Applications folder. If that folder is still there, you can run both.

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You're right!

The '09 versions launch just fine. I wish I had realized earlier that they had been retained. Thanks!

I just tried validating fonts, and it worked.

I opened fontbook, selected the "all fonts" group and selected every font in the pane. I right-clicked and validated all fonts and it came up with a couple dozen errors. Most were duplicates, so I deleted the duplicates by manually checking and removing them (the automatic duplicate cleanup didn't catch everything). There were five errors left, so I inactivated or deleted everything with an error. I closed out of fontbook, and now keynote works fine.

Your mileage may very, but hopefully this works.

The key was "All Fonts" for me. The first time I tried (unsuccessfully), I selected User or Computer.

All set now. Thanks @jacob.b.!

I deleted all problematic fonts to no success.

Removed all problematic fonts, still doesn't work.

Good to know I wasn't the only one. Same issue that everyone has been dealing with. I tried trashing preferences, caches, etc. Nothing has helped.

Same issue here on my 2009 Mac Pro. All three crash on startup. Works fine on this 2012 Macbook Air, however. Thankfully I still have iWork 09 on my Mac Pro so I can still send invoices, LOL!

Solution found! On another thread but I can't find it to send the link I'm afraid.

It was a Fonts' issue for me...

Stage 1 - Restore Standard Fonts

1- In Font Book, click file.

2- Click Restore Standard Fonts

3- Open iWork programs to check they are working

The above process moves your non-system fonts to a different folder (User > Library > Fonts (Removed))

Stage 2 - Restore disabled fonts

1- Re-install Removed Fonts. By dragging "Fonts (Removed)" into Font Book to install.

2- Check that Pages etc. is still working.

Hope that helps somebody at least!

I found another solution... are any of you using FontExplorer Pro X or any other font manager?

I am, and I found I had 'permanently activated' about 500 fonts that are stored elsewhere and not in my system folder.

One or more of these was abviously causing a problem... I deactivated them all, and now my iWork apps don't crash any more!

This bug is definitely font related!

Yeah, that helped. Thanks a lot!

Thanks jonnybackmac

Your solution worked perfectly!

I recommend that you install them into the user folder from now on.

works for me2, thank you!

Awesome! Works here too!

same problem for me…

after delete or move of the following component (loaded by iwork) : /Library/Components/iGlasses3.component

now everything is ok

Check Account and File permissions:

In my case my account home folder permissions had been set to Read Only for the account owerner (how does the owner get set to Read Only, makes little sense for such a need however it is a computer)

Settting permissions back to Read and Write and applying them down fixed all my problems. Everything now is working as it was before the upgrade to Mavericks.