![]() PopChar makes all these font-related tasks easy. Search for characters by their names or their shape, find fonts that contain certain characters, explore the character set of fonts, collect your favorite characters, insert HTML symbols. It makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of characters. PopChar works with all modern applications that support Unicode. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document. ![]() Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you. If a glyph has a keyboard equivalent, PopChar also displays the keys you can press to generate it in your document-a real timesaver for often-used glyphs.Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard. Buttons at the bottom of PopChar’s window let you choose to insert the glyph in three different ways: using the font currently selected in PopChar, the font currently active in your document, or as HTML code for your Web pages (in either numeric or named HTML code). However, you don’t have to insert the glyph into your document using the font currently selected in PopChar. This is particularly handy for inserting a dingbat character from a different font than the one you’re typing in. If you use a particular glyph over and over, you can add it to a new Favorites section for instant recall later-even if you’re using a different font. The glyphs you’ve used before are highlighted in yellow, which helps during subsequent searches. To help you discern differences between glyphs, PopChar offers a magnifier tool that enlarges each glyph as you roll your mouse cursor over it. Without this feature, you’d have to go through the tedious process of choosing each font and scrolling through the Unicode blocks to see if it has that particular glyph-and even then you wouldn’t be able to compare the glyphs side-by-side. This is incredibly useful for choosing a specific design for an ampersand (&), arrow, or other glyph, for example, even if it’s from a different font. ![]() A unique feature then lets you see the selected glyph in all active fonts where it exists, by clicking the All button. You can even search for glyphs by category name, such as “arrow” or “trademark”. If your font is in OpenType format and has an extended set of glyphs, PopChar shows all of them, clustered into standard Unicode blocks such as language, punctuation, currency symbols, numbers, arrows, geometric shapes, and dingbats. New to version 5 is the ability to invoke PopChar with a keyboard shortcut, rather than having to click a menu bar icon. When you click onto your document, PopChar’s window can either close or stay open, depending on how you set its preferences. If you double-click a glyph, it pops into your currently active document at the location of your text cursor. When you click the P icon, a floating window appears that shows all of the glyphs (characters) in any of your active fonts. ![]() PopChar X adds a small P icon to your Mac’s menu bar in either the right or left corner, or as a standard menu bar item.
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