Oh no, a bug in Apple software?

Posted on April 6, 2010

Looks like there’s a rather nasty compatibility issue in iWork for iPad.

When you export a PDF from Pages and try and open it up in Adobe Reader on a PC, you get this:

pages pdf interoperability bug (part 1)

What’s happening is that iWork’s PDF generation appears to be embedding fonts that Adobe Reader doesn’t know how to parse, and it’s falling back to placeholder dots. Which renders the entire thing illegible!

We’ve reported the issue to Apple, and you should too. There’s also an ongoing discussion of the issue on the Apple support forums, which you really should join in so that Apple notices the problem faster and pushes out an update.

This is a very serious issue that really makes iWork less useful! Sad face! Sad face, forever tears!

Jon Manning
Lead Developer

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