Unfortunately this means that the layout of a document can change between the two versions, if you used fonts that did not work properly before.
The text below was written for Pages '08:
Sometimes.
You activate Exact Line spacing for a text in the Inspector > Text > Spacing > Line, where you choose "Exactly" instead of the default "Single".
Once you have selected it, a line is supposed to stick to the same height regardless of which font is used. Unfortunately, it does not work on all fonts in Pages 3.0 with Mac OS X 10.4.10. It is not fixed with Mac OS X 10.5 either.
In the image, the black text is Helvetica, Regular, 12. The red text uses the Zapfino font. As line spacing is set to exact, the rest of the text flows correctly with the same spacing, even though the Zapfino font is taller than the surrounding text.
The blue text is set to Adobe Caslon Pro. As the exact line spacing does not work with this font, there is a white additional space that breaks the paragraph in two parts.
It seems OpenType fonts never work with exact line spacing. Many other fonts fail as well, but many work. You just have to try it out, to see if it works for your favourite fonts.
3 comments:
Hi,
I'm experiencing problems with exact line spacing in pages'08 and I would like to know if anyone is having the same problems or knows how to fix them.
Ok, here is the problem:
With exact line spacing switched on the last line on a page eventually is partially outside the lower page margin and therefore clipped.
Beside, if this is of any help, I'm using Hofer Text at a font size of 12 pt and a line spacing of 24 pt.
Is anyone having a clue how to fix this or is this a bug in pages that apple needs fixing?
That sounds very much like a bug. You can report it using http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html or (if you are a registered developer) using the bug reporting tool.
I would guess you could somewhat modify the problem by using text frames?
Anonymous, your problem may be fixed in Pages '09. You may want to download the trial version and check it out.
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