Excellent, but for one frustration - neonlight

Apple’s Pages is a true OS X application and like ever other true OS X application (built with the cocoa framework and respecting the new “rules”) it doesn’t fake font faces that you haven’t installed. Other OS X apps like OmniGraffle or OmniOutliner, TextEdit, MacJournal, Mellel and some others also don’t fake styles.
This is simply because computer generated bold and italic styles look bad compared to the real ones. In the pre OS X era (or to be more true, at the beginning of DTP with the original Macintosh 1984), a lot of typography was created without computers and only very few fonts were availabe as digital postscript files. This was the reason, why the fake styles (bold, italics, outlines, shadow, wide and narrow) were introduced into Mac OS but because today some million fonts are available as a digital font and the hand crafted versions of bold and italic look better than the computer generated ones, Apple has decided, not to include the ability to create fake styles anymore.
So you won’t be able to create them with Pages 2.0 nor with every future version of pages. You may use another font, search for a freeware one on the net or buy one with all needed styles at one of the various sources (for example adobe, linotype, fontshop)

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Wednesday, April 26 2006 @ 05:48 PM PDT

Excellent, but for one frustration - ymurphy

I'm in total agreement. I think Pages is an EXCELLENT program for producing text documents for a wide variety of uses, but ... where's the key or menu command for Italicizing text (as Nathan20 says) that isn't already included in the particular font?

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Friday, August 25 2006 @ 06:32 PM PDT