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How to insert music symbols into Preview app? Not all installed fonts available.

I want to add musical symbols to a PDF document in a Preview.app (Tools > Annotate > ) Text box. Opus font is installed in Font Book under Computer but it is unavailable in Preview app as a font choice. I checked Pages, it also does not show Opus font. When I select the half note symbol (U+1D15E <https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/musical-symbols/>) from the Font Book preview and paste it into a Preview Text box or a Pages document, it displays as the letter "h". When I type the Unicode value 1D15E into the (CTRL+CMD+space) Character Viewer search field, it describes it as MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF NOTE but displays an empty rectangle. When I select Unicode Hex Input in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder (after adding it(1)) and hold down the Option key while typing 1D15E (2), the character "ᴕ" appears after 1D15, it doesn't accept a 5 digit code. My system Mac OS is 10.12.6 Sierra.

How can I insert music symbols into Preview app?

1) System Preferences > Keyboard, Input Sources tab, hit + at the bottom, scroll the left slider down to Others at the bottom, select Unicode Hex Input

2) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1817251

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 10:48 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 13, 2019 9:05 AM in response to Dist

d834dd5e truncates to d834, the 4 digit character appears.

In case you want to try to make this work again sometime, I wonder if you perhaps stopped typing when the character appears after d834? If so, make sure you keep typing the last 4, dd5e, as that should transform the first character into the half note.

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 12, 2019 10:22 PM in response to Dist

Double click on the character in Character Viewer. That should also input it.

Urquhart1244

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Mar 9, 2019 2:18 PM in response to Dist

The Opus font, as bundled with Avid Sibelius Scorch, doesn’t follow the Unicode encoding table.

Instead, it substitutes Latin letter glyphs for music symbols.

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 12, 2019 2:26 PM in response to Dist

PS A picture of Character Viewer being used to get the half note character:

Dist Author

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Mar 11, 2019 10:46 PM in response to Dist

(Option d834dd5e was a different character before it was posted...)

Dist Author

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Mar 12, 2019 10:06 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

As I said, I cannot enter 1D15E or d834dd5e, I cannot enter more than 4 digits. 1D15E truncates to 1D15, d834dd5e truncates to d834, the 4 digit character appears.

Dist Author

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Mar 13, 2019 11:33 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I did keep typing the digits, nothing happened after the first four character display. Seems there might be some setting somewhere which restricts input to 4 digits that I can't find to change.

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