Can't change font in Keyboard Viewer.

Sad isn't it.
1. Feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

2. System prefs > Language & Text > Input sources > Select Keyboard & Character Viewer and show input menu in Menu bar which you have probably already done. 🙂

3. Third party options.
http://www.lemkesoft.com . (FontBook)
http://www.alxsoft.com/mac/charview.html
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/
S.

The new Keyboard Viewer is missing this option.

I don't think you see this coming back. In a Unicode system like OS X, changing fonts does not change the characters which the keys of the US layout produce, and the earlier menu (most of which disappeared already in the move from Tiger to Leopard) was a leftover from OS 9. Character Palette is the input method for most symbols unless you create a custom keyboard layout.

Hi Tom,
There are many fonts which use the normal keys on a US keyboard for symbols of one kind or another.

Bodoni Ornaments ITC TT. and Type Embellishments One LET are two installed by OSX10.6 and/or iWork'09 which do and both also use the option key and option shift to change the symbol typed.

I would like the drop down font list on the keyboard viewer back so I can actually use these fonts supplied by Apple never mind the others I have installed.

Snow Leopard ~ we now have to use the Character palette to use the Wingding type fonts. Can no longer change the font in TextEdit to use them.
S.

There are many fonts which use the normal keys on a US keyboard for symbols of one kind or another.

Bodoni Ornaments ITC TT. and Type Embellishments One LET are two installed by OSX10.6 and/or iWork'09 which do and both also use the option key and option shift to change the symbol typed.

Yes, understood. The logic of the technology, however, is that all such fonts should be converted to Unicode as well, so that the user is not typing the bytes intended by international standards to represent the Latin letter A but instead expecting a dingbat to always appear in the text. I guess within Apple things are not totally coordinated in this area:-)

Perhaps someone will create an alternative keyboard viewer to meet these needs. Have you looked at

http://www.corallosoftware.com/