I am using Pages to write documents and essay for my work. I'm using both 13" macbook 2015 and iPad pro 2018. The two devices sync completely fine when i edited my work. What I noticed is the format was slightly different when I switch from two devices. When I switched from Macbook to iPad the last two line of the each page is shifted to next page. For example, on my Macbook each page can hold up to 45 lines but when i switch to my iPad it became 43 lines, the last 2 lines start on the next page, ruining my whole document (the tables and photos are out of orders). I've tried using iCloud -pages access from a PC device and the format is the same as my Macbook. So i figured it must be from the ios/padOs part. I've checked the settings, margins, headers, footer of both Macbook and iPad and they are all the same. Does any one experience this kind of problem. And what should i do to fix this. Thank you.
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i'm actually using the same fonts. I thought it was that at first so i just changed it to Helvetica Neue. It still doesn't fix the problem.
Weird. I just created a Pages document on my iMac, I filled eight pages with Loren Ipsum and saved it to iCloud. I then opened it on my iPad and checked. All eight pages were identically formatted as on the iMac. I used Helvetica Neue. This just says that it is not a generic problem and should be fixable.
I’m using a 12.9” iPad 2021. Is Pages up to date on your iPad?
If you still have Apple Care on one of your systems you could contact Apple Support and get their help.
I was thinking maybe you had Widows and Orphans set differently on the two systems, but I don’t see a way to change this on the iPad. I had it set on my iMac.
The problem might be on the first page. If something there pushes text to the next page it might propagate through the document.
You could try doing what I did and make a simple multi-page document of filler text on your MacBook and see how it appears on the iPad. If that works OK that might give you a clue as to why the other document is misbehaving.
I’m using a 12.9” iPad 2021. Is Pages up to date on your iPad?
If you still have Apple Care on one of your systems you could contact Apple Support and get their help.
I was thinking maybe you had Widows and Orphans set differently on the two systems, but I don’t see a way to change this on the iPad. I had it set on my iMac.
The problem might be on the first page. If something there pushes text to the next page it might propagate through the document.
You could try doing what I did and make a simple multi-page document of filler text on your MacBook and see how it appears on the iPad. If that works OK that might give you a clue as to why the other document is misbehaving.
Just did something similar like @neutrino23 - no problems here too. If you examine your document - on which page starts the layout “breaking” away? Can you make the document available via iCloud (or somewhere els)?
So I finally figured it out what went wrong. On my documents I used lots of symbols (like ➝ ↑ > ≥ etc.) which pushes the next line after that down a few millimeters. When I tried removing those symbols the format was back to normal on my iPad. I am wondering if there's anyway to fix this since it work fine on the Mac side but not the ios part. I really need to use those symbols and few others on my documents. It would be really annoying if I can only edit my documents on my Mac and no on my iPad. I couldn't even view or read my documents on my iPad because pictures and tables are all over the places due to this misformat bug on the ios.
That's interesting. How are the symbols generated? As a font like wingdings or inserted graphics?
Its a symbol i guess. I insert them from Edit > Emoji & Symbol > Arrows. Not sure what type it is.
The best way, IMO, to accomplish that is to install a wingding/symbol font on your Mac and iPad. As long as you are the only one who will be working on those documents, it shouldn't be a problem. The one limitation of this approach would be if you regularly edit documents via a web browser and iCloud Pages because iCloud Pages can't display custom fonts.
Once that font is installed, then you would simply use the key on the keyboard that corresponds to the symbol.
There are a few ways to overcome/work around that limitation but I'll leave that for another post.
==== personal anecdote follows, not necessary to read ====
I used to type up my sermons during preparation and then longhand write out my sermon notes that I would speak from. To improve my workflow, I made a custom font of my handwriting (visual imprinting of my handwriting mixed with other text styles is extremely helpful).
I installed that font on my Mac and iPad and (Pages/Numbers/Keynote). The respective apps can display and handle documents containing that font perfectly. Surprisingly, even using the iCloud version of Pages (which can't install custom fonts) was able to display the documents with near identical layout.
Although there was an ever-so-slight difference in how the document was displayed in the web browser, editing on the cloud didn't interfere with the formatting and later printing.
Agree with sracer. Also, I would report this to Apple.
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Or maybe the iPad page would be good. I’ve had good experience with them fixing bugs I’ve reported. Not all of them, but sometimes.
I know how you Insert those characters and I don’t know what font that is. Probably the iPad is doing some sort of font substitution. Just a guess. Again, you could try going to Apple Support and start a chat or phone call with them.