Pages '09 Character Spacing No Longer Working

Thanks very much for this info, but unfortunately it's still the same problem. I followed the steps as you suggested but it's still the same. 😟

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I validated the font in FontBook and it said there were no issues with the font... but the problem persists in Pages '09.

Thank you for showing me where character spacing was in Pages 5 - I hadn't found it and I thought it was one of the many lost features! Unfortunately, as long as Pages 5 doesn't offer facing pages functionality, I still can't really use it unless I create a separate section for every single page so that I can customize the interior and exterior margins... which is pretty tedious for an entire book.

Just wanted to update that I also just tried deleting the font cache using Onyx, per fruhulda's suggestion in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3018296?answerId=15065409022#15065409022

The problem persists.

Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Okay, so I think I fixed my issue of some fonts not spacing properly in Pages '09 since I updated to Mavericks and installed Pages 5. It's weird though (at least to me)!

1) I tried deleting and reinstalling the font... that didn't work.

2) Per the suggestion in another post, I checked Pages '09 in another account on this computer. I logged out of my account and logged into the guest user account. I opened Pages '09.

3) I typed something into a blank document. The default font was Helvetica, but it was showing up very weird - all these accented, unrecognizable characters. I tried Century Gothic (the font I've been using as an example in this thread). It worked fabulously! I could increase the font, decrease the font, etc. and it behaved normally - no wonky spacing or overlapping characters.

4) Confused by why Helvetica was no longer working now, I opened up FontBook in the guest user account. To my surprise, there were at least a dozen duplicate fonts... this was not an issue in the main account I was having the issue in. Incidentally, Helvetica was NOT one of the fonts with a duplicate - it validated fine.

5) I highlighted all of the fonts and selected to resolve duplicates automatically.

6) I went back into Pages '09 (I may have quit and restarted the application) in the guest user account (same account I was already in). Suddenly, Helvetica was working. Century Gothic was working. Everything seemed to be working.

7) I logged out of the guest user account and logged back into my main account.

8) I re-opened Pages '09 and started a new document. It still works! I looked in FontBook. It looks exactly like how it looked before - no duplicate fonts.

SO: Although no one has ever used the guest account on this computer, it seems to me that somehow its FontBook was totally messed up and somehow resolving the duplicate fonts in the guest user FontBook also fixed my issue in my own account (even though there were no duplicates in that FontBook in the first place).

I am thrilled that this is working, but confused as to why. If any of you smartie pants' out there can shed some light, it would be mucho appreciated.

I hope this helps somebody!!

Yes, I have both Microsoft Office and some Adobe products on my Mac... but there has never been an issue before, neither with character spacing in Pages nor with duplicate fonts showing up in FontBook...