I can see a glyph in FontBook, but not Character Viewer.

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I can see a glyph in FontBook, but not Character Viewer.

I am writing a reference guide for iPhone in Mac Office 2011-Word. I want to include the iPhone screen symbols in my document. I would like to keep it simple by using fonts rather than graphics. All of the symbols I need are in the Apple Symbol font. I can open FontBook and see them Example the Glyph of a arrow sweeping up and to the left used to access Reply, Forward, Print actions from an email. It is Glyph 5,086.

Word only shows the first 255 character of the Apple Symbol font in the Special Characters dialog. I can not find a way to copy it from FontBook. I have also enabled the keyboard/character viewer on my menu bar. I display the character viewer, customize the list to show every possible collection, but cannot find that symbol/glyph.

At this point I would be happy to insert it somehow in any document or program and then copy and paste it to Mac Office Word 2011. Any thoughts?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mac Office 2011

Posted on Dec 29, 2011 8:53 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 29, 2011 11:01 AM in response to iJustKJ

That symbol (along with many others in that font) is not mapped to any unicode codepoint but is what they call a glyph variant. Pages and TextEdit will display it, whether any other app will do so (either directly or copy/pasted from Pages) you would just have to test. I doubt Word can do it, you would have to use a graphic.

What format will your guide be in? It would have to be pdf or printed to display glyph variants I think.

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 29, 2011 11:05 AM in response to iJustKJ

iJustKJ wrote:

I display the character viewer, customize the list to show every possible collection, but cannot find that symbol/glyph.

PS Unfortunately Apple deleted the ability to see/input glyph variants from the Character Viewer in 10.7. If you have 10.6 on a machine somewhere you can get this symbol via the View = Glyph setting in Character Viewer for that version. You can also transplant 10.6 Character Viewer to 10.7 as an independent app.

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iJustKJ Author

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Dec 29, 2011 2:33 PM in response to iJustKJ

@Tom You were correct. I fired up a MBP that I have not upgraded to Lion and could see the glyphs and put them into a Text document, but Word could not see that symbol when I opened that document

The eventual manual will be typset, It was just easier (and cheaper) for me to use Word for the first pass. I will have to ask the publisher if thier software (Mac based) can work with the symbols. Otherwise, I will have to use graphics.

Thanks!

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