All other documents, word, pages, keynote, illustrator etc need the font to be copied if you want to read the document properly on a different computer. HINT 1: pdf files DON’T need the fonts to be sent separately, the font is included in the pdf. Now click the ‘Install Font’ Button and the font will be installed onto the new computer ready to go! When you get the font onto the new computer, simply double click the font, and it will automatically open in Font Book on the new computer as follows:ĥ. Whatever method you used to copy the keynote file across, you can use to copy the font.Ĥ. To do this you can drag the font to the mail app, to email it to the new computer.Or you can drag it to a thumb drive, to copy it to the new computer. You now need to copy this font to the computer you want to use it on. There will be an option to ‘Show in Finder’, which will take you to the location of the font file on your computer!Īfter you have clicked on ‘Show in Finder’ The font you are after will be highlighted. Find the font you want to copy and control-click on the font name. Whew you open Font Book it will give you a list of all the fonts on your computer.Ģ. It is on every mac computer in the ‘Applications’ Folder. It will try to substitute a different font, which may not look good! This means if you are using a strange font, you may need to copy the font to the new computer. If the new computer doesn’t have the right font, it won’t be able to display your text properly. A font is not included in a document when you save it. This may be because the font you used is not on the second computer. Sometimes you might make a keynote presentation on one computer, but then you copy it to a different computer, and it doesn’t display properly. A font is a particular style of text, like ‘Helvetica’ or ‘Times’.

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