since el capitan some pages documents are in code
Since upgrade to el capitan some of my pages documents are in a sort of code - little squares - other pages documents are ok
MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010)
Since upgrade to el capitan some of my pages documents are in a sort of code - little squares - other pages documents are ok
MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010)
DId these documents use a custom font that is not installed in El Capitan?
Thanks for your reply. No - they used palatino. I have also noticed that in some cases when I view the document before printing, it will look normal, then print as the squares; in other cases it will look on the screen as little squares.
I should have asked this up front. What explicit version of Pages (About Pages) are you using?
It is Pages 5.5.3.
There is no guarantee that the following will correct the Palatino font corruption — that I cannot reproduce here on El Capitan with Pages v5.5.3.
Boot into Safe Boot mode. This is rebuild your system font database and your local user font database. Updating to El Capitan did not do the latter.
I had the same problem and tried a different font in Pages and solved problem.
This works for some fonts but not others. Thank you.
Thanks Viking - I did this and it didn't work unfortunately. I have found that some fonts are ok and others are not. New documents all show up on the screen as readable, but some of them print as squares, and some print OK, depending on the font I use. I can live with the reduced number of fonts, but is it feasible to replace the whole Pages app with a new version?
Anne,
I was hoping that the Safe Boot would clear some things up. There is a shorter set of steps to just rebuild the user font database, but it would involve use of the Terminal, and now we know it is not font cache corruption anyway.
You have the latest version of Pages (5.5.3) on El Capitan. Removing and reinstalling it likely will not change anything.
If you open Font Book (Launchpad : Other : Font Book), and you select the ⓘ symbol from the Toolbar for your selected font that is creating the jibberish — what kind of font does it report, and in the Location field, what is the extension on the font name?
Also, here is a link about Font management in OS X by another community member.
Hi Viking
Have just installed Pages 5.6 and problem still remains.
At first it was showing /System/Library/Fonts/Palatino - and it gave me option to Resolve Automatically, which I did. It now shows
/System/Library/Fonts/Palatino.ttc (active copy) - but the squares are still there (in Palatino).
Thanks for linked article - but looks too complicated and time consuming for me right now. Helvetica works ok so will stick with that for now until I can get it repaired.
Thanks,
Anne
Hi Viking,
Having just posted the above, I tried it again, and Palatino is now printing normally.
Thank you very much.
Anne
Oh, that capricious Palatino. Glad it decided to work for you.
since el capitan some pages documents are in code