Thanks, Chris. Unfortunately, the Character Palette wasn't helpful here.
I finally had to create the character in TextEdit, save as PDF, import the PDF into Photoshop, make the background transparent, and save as a transparent GIF.
What an incredible pain.
I also discovered that FontBook in OS X 10.4.2 is -- STILL-- incredibly flaky. I tried removing the Engraver fonts and then reinstalling them via FontBook, and, well… try it yourself and see what happens (you need to install more than one font to see what I'm talking about).
Near as I can tell, there's some problem with the Engraver fonts not being fully compatible with 10.4.
- Darcy ----- Brooklyn, NY
On 20 Sep 2005, at 9:52 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 20, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hey Brad,
Okay, I was eventually able to figure out how to make transparent GIFs in Photoshop without too much trouble, but…
This is very strange -- I'm trying to access a character from the EngraverFontExtras set (opt-P) and I can't. Other characters from the EngraverFontExtras set (like shift-P) work fine, and the font works fine in other applications, but every time I type the character in Photoshop, it changes the font to Myriad Pro and refuses to let me change it back to EngraverFontExtras.
Anyone have any idea what's going on???
No, unfortunately.
I have had some problems with certain Unicode characters, particularly in Finale, but also in other programs.
For example, I have been experimenting with some page-turn arrows, and while I found the one you (Darcy) used in one of your engraving examples in Zapf Dingbats and was able to create it successfully, I have been unable to create one that I liked better in Wingdings3. I created it successfully in AppleWorks; here it is in Wingdings3 at 72 pt size:
but it shows up wrong in Finale and Mail (it shows up as a straight down arrow instead of a curved right arrow.)
I don't know what is wrong here, either, except to suppose that Finale and Mail do not support Unicode, so there are some characters that are unreachable, even though they appear in the font character set in the Character Palette application. I was able to drag this symbol into AppleWorks, but it doesn't work in any other app I try.
Photoshop might have a similar problem. Try using the Character Palette to drag it over, but if you can't type it directly, there might be another problem.
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