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May 15, 2016 10:19 AM in response to djfilms99by Tom Gewecke,To make dingbats and other symbols, you should use the Character Viewer (Edit > Emoji & Symbols). Expand to the full version, go to the gear wheel, select customize, and check the boxes for Unicode and other categories. To input double-click or drag/drop from the center area.
How to type accents, emoji, and symbols on your Mac - Apple Support
OS X is a Unicode system, which means that old legacy dingbat and similar fonts that replace Latin characters with symbols normally do not work, and US keyboard output is Latin for all fonts. It may not be as convenient, but it does guarantee that everybody sees the same characters without having to worry about what font they have active at the moment.
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May 15, 2016 10:32 AM in response to Tom Geweckeby djfilms99,Tom,
Many thanks for taking the time to reply in detail. This helped me. Much appreciated.
Drag and drop or double-click does not work with Adobe After Effects. Surprise.
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May 15, 2016 11:09 AM in response to djfilms99by Tom Gewecke,djfilms99 wrote:
Drag and drop or double-click does not work with Adobe After Effects. Surprise.
Probably best to ask in the Adobe forums about that stuff. But you could try creating the symbol in another app like Word or TextEdit and then copy/pasting from there into a text layer in AE.
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May 15, 2016 11:14 AM in response to djfilms99by Tom Gewecke,PS If Adobe apps still have an old non-Unicode dingbat font, the hands would probably be at * and +.
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May 15, 2016 12:09 PM in response to Tom Geweckeby djfilms99,Tom, you're genius! The star and plus worked in AE.
Still doesn't sort out how to determine which key types which dingbat, the way we could in pre-UNIX-mentality days.
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May 15, 2016 3:44 PM in response to djfilms99by Tom Gewecke,★Helpfuldjfilms99 wrote:
Still doesn't sort out how to determine which key types which dingbat,
For the old font, you can consult this chart
http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?name=Adobe+Zapf+Dingbats
To find out the Latin character, type the code point of the dingbat into a browser search bar, e.g. U+002b for one of the hands.
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May 15, 2016 3:44 PM in response to Tom Geweckeby djfilms99,Thank you, Tom. you certainly know your stuff! regards.