Re: Keyboard Viewer
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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Re: Keyboard Viewer
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 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keyboard Viewer
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) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
character pallete & keyboard viewer
I just watched the iLecture cast of the April meeting and just want to say thanks to Peter for highlighting the 'hidden' character pallete and keyboard view applications built into OSX. ( 60 - 73 minuet mark) I never knew they existed, and already are of use. ß chow
Re: Keyboard Viewer in Panther
On 02/11/2003, at 9:52 AM, Tony Cockbain wrote: Has anyone had success in seeing the appropriate keyboards for Symbol and Zapf Dingbats in Keyboard Viewer under Panther. It seems to work fine for other fonts. Seems a bit sporadic. Works with some fonts but not with others. Funny thing is that Zapf Dingbats breaks, but Monotype Sorts works! Wonder if it has something to do with their being enabled or disabled in Font Book... Bears further checking... -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Keyboard Viewer in Panther
Has anyone had success in seeing the appropriate keyboards for Symbol and Zapf Dingbats in Keyboard Viewer under Panther. It seems to work fine for other fonts. Cheers Tony Tony Cockbain Editor Australian Journal of Earth Sciences PO Box 8114 Angelo Street South Perth WA 6151 Australia Tel & Fax 08 9367 7037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion" [Francis Bacon] "The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact" [Thomas Huxley]
