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In a post in 2010 "ippel" said you could view Wingdings in Keyboard Viewer by using
the 'KeyboardViewer.component' form 10.4 and drop it in System:Library:componentsfolder. I can't find 'KeyboardViewer.component.' Where can I get it. When Apple discontinued the option of changing the font for Keyboard Viewer it reduced its value to nearly zero.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Bob1177 wrote:
When Apple discontinued the option of changing the font for Keyboard Viewer it reduced its value to nearly zero.
Apple has (with a few exceptions) moved to a fully Unicode system where all fonts normally have the same characters on the keys, so changing the font makes no difference in what Keyboard Viewer shows, and the font menu was eliminated.
For Wingdings and other symbols you should use the Character Viewer. Unicode makes sure that your symbols are seen by everyone as symbols and not sometimes as letters, which was the case with legacy symbol fonts.
If you don't see the Dingbats category in your Character Viewer, activate it by going to the gear wheel at the top left and select Customize.
Bob1177 wrote:
When Apple discontinued the option of changing the font for Keyboard Viewer it reduced its value to nearly zero.
Apple has (with a few exceptions) moved to a fully Unicode system where all fonts normally have the same characters on the keys, so changing the font makes no difference in what Keyboard Viewer shows, and the font menu was eliminated.
For Wingdings and other symbols you should use the Character Viewer. Unicode makes sure that your symbols are seen by everyone as symbols and not sometimes as letters, which was the case with legacy symbol fonts.
If you don't see the Dingbats category in your Character Viewer, activate it by going to the gear wheel at the top left and select Customize.
Bob1177 wrote:
I still miss ot seeing the layout of the keyboard.
When everything works properly in Unicode, the layout of the keyboard doesn't matter, it can't make anything other than the normal latin characters, and symbols require the Character Viewer.
As usual, no one answered your question, sorry about that. Although I don't know where you can find the file, I might assume you want to know which key is mapped to what wingding character. There may be a way to do this in Character viewer, if there is, I do not know what it is. However, I didn't explore this further, as I found this image after seeking more helpful responses.
http://speakingppt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/webdings-wingdings-character-m ap-speakingppt.png
It is a wingding character map, for Wingdings 1-3. If this does not address your actual need, I apologize.
Have a great day everyone!
Bob1177 wrote:
Thanks! I printed out a copy of the table and will keep it handy and that will help.
You will likely find that some apps will not accept use of the keyboard to input with these non-Unicode fonts, and that becomes more so with more recent versions of OS X. In that case the Character Viewer should still work.
Why don't you use Character Viewer?
You can drag & drop characters from the palette into the application you are using.
Thanks Tom. That will help. However I still miss ot seeing the layout of the keyboard.
Thanks! I printed out a copy of the table and will keep it handy and that will help.
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