Why is updated pages altering font when I export to PDF?

I downloaded Aleo.otf from Font Squirrel, installed it, verified it and it verifies OK.

Original Pages file:

Pages PDF:

TextEdit PDF:

Is there something else you have done that you have not told us about?

Peter

rafaelmillan

Don't instantly jump to conclusions. How do you know this is Apple's fault?

Have you tested it anywhere else?

Fonts have problems. Downloads have problems.

Have you verified the fonts, where did you get them from and how old are they?

Peter

preston something wrote:

I am having the same problem when I export to a word document. Im having all sorts of issues with pages. Like if I try to go down a line by pressing enter, the text changes font, size position, it just goes completely different to what I was typing before. I don't know, seems like this should not be a problem seeing as it is a simple text document. Get with it Apple, Microsoft has you beat! I still love you though.... : )

Separate issue, you probably have Next Paragraph Style set to a different Style. So it is just following the formatting. That it is happening in Word by your logic should suggest that it is a Word problem. It just happens to recognise the Next Paragraph Style which it also uses.

As a user I suggest you don't just guess at everything, but actually check before coming to conclusions.

And as we repeatedly point out Pages is not Word. Word can not even export to Pages, you can not expect them to be totally identical.

If you want to work with Word documents, use Word or a free clone like LibreOffice.

Pages is not a Word clone.

Peter

Just noticed these are all old posts, and far from being "amazing" are all jumping to wild conclusions whilst testing nothing.

Too often the way these days. Have they been slipping something in the burgers?

P.

I've had the same problem with the font Aleo. The problem is not just with PDF export in Pages. It is also with printing and it seems to be a problem with all Apple apps. The problem also occurs with third party apps when exporting PDFs using the print dialogue. However, the problem does not occur when I export a PDF from an Adobe CS6 app using Adobe's PDF export. So it seems to be a Yosemite-wide problem.

I tried downloading the font again and using the newly downloaded version. The problem remained.

This is very annoying because Aleo is one of the main fonts my organisation uses.

The latest Pages update (5.5.1) does not fix the problem.

Is your PDF image above displayed in Preview 8.0, or in Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.09? One of the responses also indicates that by-passing both Pages v5.5.1, and Mac OS X 10.10 Quartz PDFContext writer eliminates the issue. Though it solves the issue, it does not isolate the source of the problem.

I would suggest redoing enough of your content in the afflicted font — in another application — Word in Office for Mac 2011, or even the free LibreOffice, and then export to PDF. Evaluate the result. I believe the former will use the Apple Quartz PDFContext for PDF export, whereas LibreOffice uses its own PDF writer.

The Word solution, if the font is correctly imaged in the exported PDF, would lay the blame at the feet of Pages v5.5.1, and not the Apple Quartz PDF writer. However, if the font issue remains, then either the font itself is suspect, or the Yosemite implementation of the PDF writer. Other than a free alternative to Word, the LibreOffice approach would simply provide a total replacement for Pages v5.5.1 and the Apple Quartz PDF writer. Like every application on the planet, it does not read Pages documents.

It would not surprise me if Pages v5.5.1 was to blame, and hoping for any fixes from Apple in this application, is contingent upon your particular degree of faith. I personally do not trust Pages v5 (any version) for Professional quality work. The tangible and intangible costs are too high in using this scatware.

VikingOSX wrote:

It would not surprise me if Pages v5.5.1 was to blame, and hoping for any fixes from Apple in this application, is contingent upon your particular degree of faith. I personally do not trust Pages v5 (any version) for Professional quality work. The tangible and intangible costs are too high in using this scatware.

I totally agree, I don't consider Pages anything other than a simple letter writer, and it is far too expensive for such mediocre performance at that.

Use LibreOffice.

I want to point out again that this problem is not specific to Pages. It happens with all apps that use the Apple PDF export. It happens when printing too. The preview of the font in Finder also does the small spread out thing:

So far I have only come across one font in my library which causes this problem. The font is Aleo. I have pointed the font designer to this question, though the problem is probably not with him.

Hello,

I think I have found a workaround.

I had this problem with the CoreHumanist family (.ttf). I can't say if it's Yosemite related because I started using the font after upgrading, but the symptoms definitely look like the ones from the original poster.

To fix this I converted the font from .ttf to .otf using an online tool like https://cloudconvert.org/otf-to-ttf

I uninstalled the .ttf and installed .otf. Problem fixed.

Not really a solution but a workaround. Apple should fix this.

BTW another discussion is going on here: Font is smaller when I print or export to PDF

Good luck!

Thanks for this. I removed the .otf version of Aleo and installed the .ttf version (in the Webfont folder of the Aleo download). It works fine. So using a different font file type seems to be the workaround for now.

I am having the same problem when I export to a word document. Im having all sorts of issues with pages. Like if I try to go down a line by pressing enter, the text changes font, size position, it just goes completely different to what I was typing before. I don't know, seems like this should not be a problem seeing as it is a simple text document. Get with it Apple, Microsoft has you beat! I still love you though.... : )

omg you are amazing. this worked perfectly.