This is for all my iPad buddies out there. Apples new iPad only uses a selection of standard fonts, so far Apple does not offer a solution to install custom font faces, which would be handy when working with iWork documents. This issue has been often criticised so far on iPad reviews and renders it useless for business presentations with e.g. corporate fonts, etc.
I just found a simple way to solve this issue: All you need to do, is jailbreak your iPad, and install openSSH via Cydia. Then use an SFTP client (e.g. Transmit) and upload your custom font (ttf, ttc, otf worked fine for me aswell) to /System/Library/Fonts/Cache/ on your iPad. Login as “root”, default password is “alpine”. Download the CGFontCache.plist from /System/Library/Fonts/ and edit it with Property List Editor.app on your Mac. Simply enter a new key under “Names” corresponding to your font name and file. Upload the .plist back on the iPad, reboot it, and you’re done. Enjoy your custom font in Pages, etc.
