OT - Generating "Font Maps"
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- N Grossingink
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Back in the days of the good old Mac OS9, I had a simple application that generated a printable "Font Map" for all of the characters and their keystrokes associated with a given font. I'd like to find something for OSX that works with Unicode fonts as well as the standard fonts.
Any suggestions appreciated. I'm willing to purchase an app for a reasonable charge.
Thanks,
N.
Any suggestions appreciated. I'm willing to purchase an app for a reasonable charge.
Thanks,
N.
N. Grossingink
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- miker
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Remember, with the old Mac format, you only had 255 characters to deal with, so a map was no big deal. With Unicode, you have thousands. So I wouldn't expect a way to print them all out.
A utility like PopChar is a very good way to navigate the fonts, and see what the keystrokes are.
A utility like PopChar is a very good way to navigate the fonts, and see what the keystrokes are.
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There must be some font-examining utility for the Mac, but if you're only interested in the Western characters, say, you could make a word-processing document with the character codes you're interested in, then change fonts whenever you want to look at a different font.
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Like miker, I would suggest PopChar.
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Thanks, friends. I downloaded PopChar and that will do nicely. Seems like a very well written app, and reasonably priced to boot ($32 US).
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Apple's Baskerville has 1777 characters. Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro has 2372. November2 has 1790.OCTO wrote:Can't you just install FontForge and print from there?
Multiply that by all the different styles and weights of all your fonts, and you're going to need a lot of paper!
PopChar is good: I've been using it since Classic Mac days. But I also use FontExplorerX to manage my fonts, and that gives you a nice table of each font's characters, too, with their keystroke and Unicode numbers, and you can copy chars to the clipboard.
You can use a PDF printer. Some photons are necessary to display it.BuonTempi wrote:Apple's Baskerville has 1777 characters. Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro has 2372. November2 has 1790.OCTO wrote:Can't you just install FontForge and print from there?
Multiply that by all the different styles and weights of all your fonts, and you're going to need a lot of paper!
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