superscript appears in tables on my screen, but will not print

You are correct.

Works fine in floating text box and in document text.

Works fine in Pages '09.

Mark that up as yet another Pages 5 bug.

Use Pages '09 which should be in your Applications/iWork folder.

Peter

My lack of happiness with Apple was turned into smoldering fury by the cow faced "Experts" in our local Apple Store.

Yes you know who I am speaking to in our glorious Nation's Capital!

Don't put on the "Genius" T-shirt if it doesn't fit. Honestly they think Apple giving them the T-Shirt is enough. No thinking allowed thereafter.

Not allowed to call them ignoramouses to their face, but it must have been apparent that is what I was thinking.

The manager is a hopeless tape recorder spouting "reassuring" Apple Speak, with absolutely nothing to back it up with.

They can't even manage their own Macs and networks in the Store and constantly trail all updates and upgrades by weeks, because "It isn't easy!" Talk about condemned out of their own mouths, but they don't even know it!

Sorry. I'm still fuming. What on earth is happening with Apple indeed?

I just bought yet another Mac, a Macbook Pro for my son. What was I thinking!

Peter

Glad I found this ... had just posted a similar question. Reverting to Pages '09 worked. Frustrating to say the least to have to be 'backwards' with new software.

Thanks for the info, Peter. Much appreciated.

I had this problem too. I sent a CV for a job with formatting errors thanks to the wonderful update to Pages. Going back to 09 is in the future for me.

APPLE, PLEASE FIX THIS!

I JUST noticed this today. I sent a bug report to apple. Hopefully this can be fixed.

I actually am starting to prefer pages 5 to pages 4. I'm also noticing that some features that weren't working before are working now, so I have hope.

Reverting to version 9 didn't help me.

Here are a few workarounds:

1. use special characters, such as superscripted/subscripted numbers (can't do text this way)
2. use MathType to create equations within the table with the superscripts/subscripts (hard to format text this way, but fine if you're doing math)
3. use Pages '09 (as others have pointed out, though this is really just a cop out on the new Pages)
4. use smaller text to simulate a subscript (looks bad, but not illegible)

This isn't just subscripts and superscripts, or you could mess with the baseline manually; this is a bug with every non-zero baseline setting. The weird part is that both the OS X display and printing are rendered as PDFs, so what this probably represents is a bug in OS X, not Pages. The old Pages probably used some workaround kludge to compensate for OS X.

having the same issue

Same issue, reported it to Apple and they contacted me for more information which I submitted. Hopefully this means a fix is in the making!

Just came across this same issue in Keynote 6 as well.

Here is another workaround that works for me (I DON'T HAVE PAGES '09)

1- Copy the table

2- Paste it on textedit

3- Export it as a pdf

4- Import it back to pages, and adjust it.

This let you print it any via (pdf, printer, etc.)

Hope this works for someone too, and i know we all hope APPLE MAKE SOMETHING ABOUT IT Pleas!

I found a character within the character palette that does the trick for the time being.

Font Arial

SUBSCRIPT TWO

Unicode: U+2082, UTF-8: E2 82 82

I tried it myself with Pages 5.2 on 10.9.4 and the unicode is still visible after export to pdf. I already filed a bug report but we have no idea when Apple will correct this serious problem.

The first column should reed O2 as wel but that's the problem. In the 3rd column I added a test O2 with the unicode character and it worked.

Those are not superscripts they are fraction glyphs.

The original poster's problem is with superscripting, raising and reducing the size of selected text. This and other detailed formatting is buggy in Pages 5.

Peter