Font conversion from Word for Windows to Pages

Gosh, I'm impressed: I've just looked for the iOS core font list and see it includes Bodoni 72 and Hoefler.

Odd that only a couple of days ago I saw someone complaining at how few there were in the supplied iOS set. Another of my old Pages documents contained Windings numbers in circles which did not render in iOS. I then found something on my Mac called Nanum Brush Script. It's a TrueType font that Pages and Bean show in the font list, but which TypeBook says is not installed! It produced enclosed numbers for me and it renders fine on iPhone and iPad despite not being listed at http://iosfonts.com/.

Back to my original question: I tried the .docx in my earlier version of Pages and despite the app having little more than half the footprint of the current version I see I'd forgotten that it actually allowed for the re-mapping of fonts, like PageMaker:

As I said I get sent Windows documents, not the fonts.

Having started my career in printing with hand setting [in the days when fonts were founts over here, before Apple changed that too!] I am well aware that there are infinite versions of every font, to the extent I once had 30 variants of Times on an SE30 to do an evaluation.

If Bean can provide a sensible interpretation I can't believe it is impossible in Pages. By changing two different fonts to a generic Times it is not even possible for me to make an intelligent substitution as there seems no way in Pages to find what the original font was.

I only recently realised that Pages somehow embeds fonts when I looked at a Mac document on my iPhone and found a whole raft of non-core fonts correctly rendered [so glad to see it is no longer 'the age of Courier'].

If 'Pages is doing exactly what it was programmed to do, not what it ought to do' it is simply badly programmed. I use Bean 2.4.1 for preference for data entry and I think at one time Robin Hoover said it was not going to be developed further. I looked again at 3.2.9 recently and don't like it as much. As 2.4.1 runs happily with Siera I shall stick with it. My 3.2.9 must be different to yours as [see my earlier post] I get my Palatino in place of Linotype and my Times in place of theirs in both versions of Bean.

I'm not sure why Linotype have re-cut Palatino from the Stempel version that Apple got in conjunction with Adobe way back, as Stempel had already become the type design department of Linotype when I visited ithem in the mid-80s. Though it was designed for newspaper use on slug-setting machines it was by far the best font for legibility in the early, bad, days of photosetting and later Linotype made it available in all their film formats [you had to buy it again every time you got a new model of typesetter before PostScript!] and was also good on 300dpi lasers printers, while Times was terrible.

I guess this is just another deficiency in Pages: I've not needed to use it in years and having recently got 6.0.5 I get the impression that either it has lost features since 3.0.3, which is the last version I'd used, or made them harder to find. I guess this was to make it easier to port to iOS.

Thanks again.

Having had Macs almost since the get-go there is no knowing how or when I got fonts, especially as vendors kept sending them and I may have installed them to look at and never deleted them. It looks as if it was introduced in 2010, I did not realise TrueType had lasted than long.

When I select the glyphs it says they are Nanum, and if I change to another family the body size is a good bit smaller point for point. I'll keep on using them as they are there and for convenience have kept 1-10 at the bottom of the file to cut and paste in case they are ever needed again, though I can't imagine I'd use the rest of its character set!

Ah, thanks.

I was about to ask how I could get the intermediary version, but then realised that it presumably won't play with iOS with or without Handoff. Or am I wrong?