Any way to find out which fonts are used in a Pages doc?

[tuqqer]

Ha, I work in Pages every day, making trainings, books, etc. Yet because I rarely need to share any docs, I've never needed to know how to find all fonts used in a particular doc to include those to the new editor.

Anyway to find out which fonts are used in a Pages (v8.2) doc?

[Randalls]

Can you export as a PDF then use Acrobat info (command-D) and go to fonts tab?

[pdq]

Randalls wrote:
Can you export as a PDF then use Acrobat info (command-D) and go to fonts tab?

Clever!

[tuqqer]

Randalls wrote:
Can you export as a PDF then use Acrobat info (command-D) and go to fonts tab?

Well THAT is a cool trick. Thank you for that, Randalls!

Always hated Adobe Reader's deeply intrusive methods for putting crap all over the place, and have kept it deleted from my Mac for years. But I downloaded a fresh copy on this advice, making sure to use "Customize" in the install process, and that is one handy feature they have, to see all fonts. Thanks again, man.

[tuqqer]

Ha, just found this answer as well, via a custom Script:

Copy and paste the following code into Script Editor. Click the Compile (hammer) button, and then click the Run button.



-- pages_fonts.applescript
-- prompt for Pages document and present an alpha ordering of fonts in the document
set mdls_syntax to "-name kMDItemFonts "
-- skip first and last lines of mdls output, strip specific chars, and sort results
set awk_syntax to "'NR>2 {print l | \"sort\"} {$1=$1} {gsub(/[\\t,\" ]*/, \"\");l=$0}'"
set pages_fonts to {}

-- prompt for the Pages document
set pages_file to POSIX path of (choose file of type {"com.apple.iwork.pages.pages", "com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages"})

-- get list of fonts in the Pages document
set pages_fonts to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdls " & mdls_syntax & pages_file & " | awk " & awk_syntax) as list

if not length of pages_fonts = 0 then
set {TID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, linefeed}
display dialog "Pages file: " & pages_file & return & return & pages_fonts as text with title "Pages Document Fonts"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
end if
return

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Works like a charm:

[Randalls]

No problem, have to dig through files and outline them for press imposition. Found this the easy way to make sure they were embedded or better yet gone.

[jdc]

Just on a side note, have you tried affinty publisher?

Im sure pages is great -- and probably not given its due worth (like iWeb, dude, it rocked) -- but curious if you had the itch to switch, or at least did the 30 day trial.

I have a couple of clients using pages, but they have wanted to do a bit more, so thinking of steering them toward publisher. Thought someome with your pages use might give me some insight?

[tuqqer]

I haven't, jdc. Probably because Pages is one of those rare programs where I find nothing missing. It's a joy to work with for my needs, which are mainly single page flyers, 3-10 page how-to manuals, and full-on books. I'm currently co-authoring a new book and once you set up the templates, Pages just rocks for my purposes. It's kind of the bastard child of QuarkExpress for those of us who never learned it.

And I'm still learning stuff on it. I went years before learning that once you start moving any item (text box, image, etc), if you hold down the Command key, you can move it with much more precision.

I've often thought I'd enjoy doing how-to videos on Pages.

[jdc]

Cool, thanks.