Re: Keyboard Viewer

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 06/09/2007, at 3:18 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

I have been looking for some fancy symbols and realise that  
Keyboard Viewer does not display some fonts correctly (Webdings,  
Zapf Dingbats) though they come up fine in Font Book.   I have  
repaired permissions and trashed Keyboard Viewer Server preferences  
but no joy.

Any suggestions please?
Severin Crisp


This is a known bug in Keyboard Viewer. Hopefully it will be fixed in  
Leopard, but I have read nothing to suggest this might be true.  
Unfortunatley, no amount of repairing permissions or trashing support  
files will help.


Your best alternative (with built-in Mac OS X resources) id the  
Character Palette. If you don't have this turned on, it can be  
accessed from the bottom of the Edit menu in many programs ("Special  
Characters..."), but not all (notably, of course, Microsoft Office).  
If you don't see Special Characters... in the Edit menu, you'll have  
to activate it by going to System Preferences > International > Input  
Menu Tab and click the chekc box next to Character Palette at the top  
of the list of input methods. You can now access the Character  
Palette from the International Menu (the same way you access Keyboard  
Viewer) and this works in pretty much any program, including Office  
2004.


It doesn't give you the keyboard commands of Keyboard Viewer, but it  
does give you access to thousands of symbols in any font you have  
available.


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[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

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Has anyone used 'ColorBlind Prove It!' for calibrating their monitor? 
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See www.color.com for the product.
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Re: Keyboard Viewer

[Ronda Brown]

On 06/09/2007, at 3:18 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

I have been looking for some fancy symbols and realise that  
Keyboard Viewer does not display some fonts correctly (Webdings,  
Zapf Dingbats) though they come up fine in Font Book.   I have  
repaired permissions and trashed Keyboard Viewer Server preferences  
but no joy.

Any suggestions please?
Severin Crisp


Hi Severin,

Keyboard Viewer does a good job with “real” character fonts, but when  
you move into symbols and dingbats, you can have problems.
Apple’s Character Palette can help in this regard because it will  
show you all those oddball characters and allow you to insert them  
into your text.


To view special characters in Keyboard Viewer, hold down any modifier  
keys (the option key, for example), and the on-screen keyboard will  
show you the special characters available for that particular key (or  
for that combination of modifier keys if you’re holding down more  
than one).
To test other typefaces, click on the Font menu at the bottom of the  
window and select another one.


For example, hold down the Option key and type G and the copyright  
symbol © appears in your text.


Webdings shows ok in my Keyboard Viewer, but Zapf Dingbats doesn't.

Cheers,

Ronni



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Keyboard Viewer

[Severin Crisp]

I have been looking for some fancy symbols and realise that Keyboard  
Viewer does not display some fonts correctly (Webdings, Zapf  
Dingbats) though they come up fine in Font Book.   I have repaired  
permissions and trashed Keyboard Viewer Server preferences but no joy.

Any suggestions please?
Severin Crisp

   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
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