THE NON-DESIGNER'S TYPE BOOK
¿font Utilities
This section contains some information about utilities available to help you with your
typefaces, as well as charts of the special characters and how to type them. For Windows
users, there is not much else available besides what you see in this section. For Macintosh
users, you might want to check out another book of mine, How to Boss Your Fonts
Around, Second Edition, for more information on a variety of other utilities available
to make your font menu easier to use, plus guidelines on how to organize and store your
fonts, and how to manage them.
Where to find what for the Macintosh:
PopChar ..........................................217
KeyCap ...........................................218
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe .................. 219
DiamondSoft Font Reserve .....................219
Special characters available
in a typical Macintosh font.................. 220
PageMaker extras ............................... 222
QuarkXPress extras ..............................223
Where to find what for Windows:
Character Map .................................. 224
ANSI chart of characters .........................225
PageMaker extras ............................... 226
QuarkXPress extras ............................. 228
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe
229
APPENDIX
FONT UTILITIES
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PopChar Lite ■ Mac
PopChar Lite is a freeware piece of software, a little control panel. Drop it onto your
System Folder, restart, and then you can access it. Choose a font in your document,
press on the tiny symbol that appears in your menu bar, and you get this box that
displays all the characters in the font. Slide over the one you want, let go, and that
character appears in your document. The keys to create that character are displayed in
the upper-right corner.
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