Spade Symbol font to be seen after copy and past a page containing the font

Yup, exactly as Tom stated. The PDF is using a TrueType version of Symbol MT for all instances of the suits. It's probably an old, non-Unicode font.

Simplest for you is to do as Tom suggested and copy the suits from the Character Palette, which will again be the from whichever font you pick the shape from. Here, I have the heart glyph chosen in Arial. But there's a heart glyph in all kinds of fonts. As you click on each one, the palette will tell you which font the highlighted glyph is in.

When I copy and paste a page…

Not clear enough. A web page that is displaying card suits?

If so, when you paste into another app, it is almost always going to paste as the default font for that app. Meaning, it is pasting the correct Unicode information for that glyph's font position, but not in the correct font. Then you get whatever is in the default font for those positions (if there's anything in that font at all for those Unicode locations).

Assuming the web page you're copying them from is using Symbol to display card suits as a font, you should be able to paste, then highlight the characters (no matter what they look like at the moment), and then choose Symbol from the font list for that app.

Or, skip the web page entirely and enter the glyphs on your own. For Symbol it's:

Hearts - Option+G

Clubs - Option+6

Diamonds - Shift+Option+U

Spades - Option+9

However, those are older Classic (pre-Unicode) keystrokes. I don't think they work in newer, Unicode aware apps.

Raghavanfromchennai wrote:

When I copy and paste a page containing card symbols like Spade

Where is the page you are copying from? What is the app you are copying into? Apple does not supply non-Unicode fonts and some apps will not use them even you have them. Standard Unicode symbols for card suits can be made via the Character Viewer: ♠︎♣︎♥︎♦︎♤♧♡♢

Raghavanfromchennai wrote:

Is there any font family

which has inbuilt symbols, so that when I paste, symbols come on their own.

If you would only copy from pdfs and webpages done with standard Unicode characters, you would not have to worry, the fonts provided by Apple would display everything correctly. But since they apparently are not that way, it is hard to tell what font they require, and no guarantee that this font would work in the app you are pasting into.

Do you have a problem answering the question you were asked about what app you are pasting this stuff into?

I think that probably uses the old non-unicode Symbol font, as Kurt suggested. It's really a bad idea to use this in anything digital you are creating yourself. But if you have a copy of MS Word somewhere, that might still come with this font and display it correctly.

If you provide the url of one of the web pages, we could have a look at what font they are using