Special characters for Mac CS3?

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Doug_Dye
Oct 15, 2008
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I am so frustrated, I can’t find anything about this in Photoshop Help.

Thanks in advance…how can I use special characters with the Type Tool?

Thanks again,

Doug Dye
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Neil_Keller
Oct 15, 2008
Doug,

What special characters do you mean? And for what purpose? Any specific fonts causing an issue?

Neil
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Ann_Shelbourne
Oct 15, 2008
Photoshop urgently needs a Glyphs palette— and, sadly, it is still absent in CS4.

Meanwhile you can use Apple’s Character Palette or the third-party "PopChar" to access the regular 256 glyphs in a standard font; or you could copy/paste from Illustrator (which does have a Glyphs palette that can access the extendedl range of characters in the Pro fonts).
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Neil_Keller
Oct 15, 2008
Good point, Ann.

Neil
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Doug_Dye
Oct 15, 2008
THANKS ALL! A client wants some sort of bullets in text.

I tried the Character palette, and found what I wanted, but the "bullets" showed up as rectangles when pasted into text fields in Photoshop. I had pasted them from Word though, should I try Illustrator?

I am somewhat amazed that Photoshop doesn’t have a way to access this stuff without copying and pasting from other apps.

Thanks again,

Doug Dye
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Ann_Shelbourne
Oct 15, 2008
A Glyphs Palette has been on the Features request list for a long time now but it doesn’t seem to have made it into CS4.

You can paste➽ a character from Illustrator but you do need to have the necessary font available to Photoshop.

Likewise if you "Insert with Font" from Apple’s Character Palette.
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Scott_Weichert
Oct 15, 2008
Bullet = Option-8 right there in Photoshop.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Oct 15, 2008
But he wants some special sort of bullet — perhaps a Zapf Dingbat or Wingdings glyph?
SW
Scott_Weichert
Oct 15, 2008
He didn’t say what he wanted.. said he saw it in the Character Palette but it turned into a triangle. No telling what "it" is.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Oct 15, 2008
Quite!

8/
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Ram
Oct 15, 2008
If a glyph turns into a rectangle, it just means the font does not support it. Try a different font.
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Welles_Goodrich
Oct 15, 2008
PopChar accesses any character in every Unicode block. It isn’t limited to ASCII.

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