Why does the Century font in Pages ’09 not include italics or bold

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I am using Apple Pages '09 to write a document where the font must be in Century. In Microsoft Word, the Century font has an italics, bold, and underline option. However, in Pages '09 the only available text decoration is underline. Why is that so? And do other fonts have restrictions on text decorations in Pages?

Best Answer

If I got you right, there are two parts to this question.

  1. Why wouldn't Pages allow me to embolden or italicize letters in Century?
    • Probably because you don't have a bold or italic versions of the font on your system, as ahruss said. I think they are not bundled with the system by default.
  2. If so, why is it possible in Word and not possible in Pages? What's the difference?
    • When the system does not have a ready-made bold/italic typeface, Word works around by mathematically slanting the regular glyphs or making each stroke of the glyphs thicker. This usually does the job, but the output is ugly (try italicizing Times New Roman and Century on MS Word and compare the results -- especially the lower case letters). This is probably why Pages do not perform this workaround, forcing the user to select another font with all the text styles ready-made.

(Correct me if I'm wrong -- I know a little bit about fonts but I haven't used Pages)

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