Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Install Fonts on Your iPad

Have you ever crafted a Keynote slide or Pages document on
your computer, thoughtfully selecting the perfect font, only to
find that when you open the document on your iPad you are
greeted with the message:
“The font FortuneCookie is missing. Your text might look
different.”
This morning I made a slide in Keynote on my Mac, and chose
the font FortuneCookie. My iPad replaced FortuneCookie
with Helvetica Neue – a nice enough font but not the one I had
chosen!
Or perhaps you are just bored by the small selection of fonts on
the iPad and want to add a few.
Unknown to many people, it’s actually quite easy to install
additional fonts on your iPad. Start by downloading AnyFont
($2.49)
Then connect your iPad to your computer, open iTunes, select
your iPad in the devices list, click the Apps tab at the top, and
scroll down to the File Sharing section. Within the File Sharing
section, you will see a list of all the apps that are available for
file sharing. Select AnyFont from that list, as shown in Fig 1.
Drag any true type font (.ttf) or open type (.otf) or true type
collection (.ttc) from your computer to the left-hand pane titled
“AnyFont Documents”. If you have just installed
AnyFont this pane of the window will be empty. You can see
that I have added 14 fonts.
Now you can close iTunes on your computer and disconnect
your iPad. Open the AnyFont app on your iPad, and tap the
font(s) you have just added. The app will take you through a
few steps to install the font. (These steps feel unusual as you
are doing them, but they are quite easy and safe).
That done, open an app such as Pages, and format some text
and you will now see that your new font is available to use.
That’s all there is to it. Now you can make your presentations
and documents look as nice on your iPad as you can on your
Mac.

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