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It’s not my intention that you actually ever do what I talk about here. Oh, and a small print reminder too: Ask Dave Taylor exists for purposes of entertainment only. If so, I’d appreciate hearing so from someone on the Microsoft team and I’ll modify this article appropriately to reflect that.
#FONTS FOR MAC PAGES INSTALL#
Let me show you exactly what I figured out…Ĭaveat: I’m not sure of the exact terms of the Microsoft license for installing demo software, so it’s possible that extracting the fonts to install separately might be a violation of terms. Still, I didn’t really want to have MS Office running on my computer after having spent months teaching myself the iWorks suite after deciding to switch away from Microsoft software on my Mac.Īnd then I had that “aha!” moment. I then thought that a good solution might be to download the trial edition of Microsoft Office for the Mac, on the assumption that it’d install the fonts as part of the trial, then when I deleted or removed the app, it’d more likely than not leave the new fonts. Yeah, a $100+ solution to a minor annoyance? Not so good. I even went into Apple and talked with a “Genius” about it and he had no real solution other than to suggest that I actually install Microsoft Office 2008 on my computer.
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That’s the error you’re seeing and I’m familiar with it because I too had this same frustrating problem. If you’ve never installed MS Office, you therefore have a problem: there are fonts that might be needed that aren’t available. You bring up a fundamental compatibility problem with iWorks applications on the Mac versus Microsoft’s Office suite on the Mac: while the file format of MS Word, for example, is understood by Mac Pages, there are fonts that are included as part of MS Office that aren’t actually part of the default font set on a Mac.