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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