Once the fonts are installed, they can then be used throughout the iOS system for other apps that access the iOS font book, like Pages, Keynote or Numbers – for the most part, any app that allows for font selection.ĪnyFont is an iOS app available for $1.99 The following font formats are supported: TrueTypeFont (.ttf), OpenTypeFont (.otf), and TrueType Collection (.ttc). AnyFont provides the capability of installing additional fonts onto all iOS devices running iOS 7. Would Apple's sandboxing rules prevent this?Īfter researching this a bit, I stumbled across an iOS app called AnyFont by Florian Schimanke. So then, I started to wonder about the feasibility, or even the possibility, of installing fonts onto iOS. I certainly could have picked from any number of novelty fonts that are installed in iOS – like my favorite, Comic Sans – but I wanted Santa Fe. The Santa Fe font is a novelty font meant to be used sparingly. Upon opening the Keynote presentation on the iPad, I would be presented with a warning that the required Santa Fe font was not installed and that Keynote would substitute it. Unfortunately, Santa Fe is not present in iOS. One of several Keynote themes that I was looking at for a particular presentation I was preparing, was designed with a font called Santa Fe. The Santa Fe font in Keynote for Mac gets an unacceptable substitution on the iPad My own experiences testing a number of Jumsoft’s Keynote themes, support their claims… with one exception. In their documentation, Jumsoft claims that all their themes and designs are compatible with the latest Keynote version 6. Bundles are available at quite reasonable prices given the professional quality of the designs. Several are free but most are for sale as in-app purchases. These Toolboxes are actually browsers that showcases all of the Keynote and Pages themes, clipart, and other graphical elements that Jumsoft has developed. Jumsoft also makes available the Toolbox for Pages app. I purchased and downloaded a $1.99 app called Toolbox for Keynote by Jumsoft, available for free on the Mac App Store. I was looking into some commercially-designed Keynote themes (templates) for some fresh ideas. Now that Pages and Keynote (and Numbers) for both OS X, iOS and are almost perfectly integrated – truly a beautiful thing – I have decided to fully adopt cross-platform document production starting this Fall semester. In fact, these two are my favorite apps of all-time, and… I do mean all-time! I rely heavily on both Pages and Keynote. Earlier this week, I started to prepare for the OS X, iOS, Photography and Italian courses I teach at local colleges here in Delaware.
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