For folks who have a need for a font managing app, you might look into Linotype FontExplorer X. This is a commercial app that works a lot like iTunes and is excellent for managing and previewing fonts. In addition to the current paid version, Linotype produced an older free version for OS X which is no longer supported but still works: <http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Linotype-FontExplorer-X-Download-1050 3.html>
I have been using the free version for years and it has worked perfectly for me (not sure if there are any issues on OS X Lion). It is able to preview all characters in fonts, including the high value characters in Font Awesome. The current version of FontExplorer X for Mac and Win can be found here: http://www.fontexplorerx.com/ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > OK, that's odd... here's what I see in PopChar: > http://buchwald.ca/lc/PopCharScreenShot.png > > - Charles > > P.S. I guess it would be nice to expand the LC character viewer... > > On 2012-07-04, at 1:04 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: > >> Mmm ... strange ... have you scrolled down on the character pane and selected >> Unicode on top ? >> >> Look this print-screen : http://www.braguglia.ch/filechute/PopCharScreen.jpg >> >> Guglielmo >> >> >> On 04.07.2012 19:53, Charles E Buchwald wrote: >>> Hi Guglielmo, >>> I think I used to use a version of PopChar several years ago... >>> OK, I've downloaded the trial. Looks useful. >>> If I select FontAwesome from within PopChar, I'm still only seeing those 57 >>> characters. I suppose these are the ones with low unicode values? >>> Is there some trick to PopChar that would allow me to view "high unicode >>> values"? >>> >>> I did find this: >>> http://rorohiko.blogspot.mx/2011/11/i-am-using-lion-where-is-my-trusted.html >>> ... with instructions on setting the native character viewer to show the >>> Unicode tables. >>> And also many useful subsets I didn't know about, such as "Sign/Standard >>> Symbols" and "Pictographs" >>> >>> Still not seeing the full unicode character set with a specific font, >>> though. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> - Charles >>> >>> On 2012-07-04, at 10:30 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Charles, >>>> normally I use also PopChar (http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/) and >>>> he correctly show the unicode characters ... >>>> >>>> Much better than the native character viewer ... but ... try before buy ... >>>> ;-) >>>> >>>> Guglielmo >>>> >>>> >>>> On 04.07.2012 17:22, Charles E Buchwald wrote: >>>>> So for those of us without FontLab Studio, is there a Mac utility that is >>>>> useful for showing unicode values? >>>>> Or perhaps someone has created a LC stack for doing so? >>>>> >>>>> I was just looking at the Character Viewer built in to OS X Lion, but it >>>>> does not show unicode values... unless of course I'm missing something, >>>>> which is probable. >>>>> >>>>> - Charles >>>>> >>>>> On 2012-07-04, at 1:06 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Jacque, >>>>>> the FontAwesome.ttf that you find into the font folder is NOT empty ... >>>>>> just appear empty if you use quick-look, but I opened the font on Mac >>>>>> with "FontLab Studio" and all characters are there, just with high >>>>>> unicode values (most are between F000 and F0EA, plus one in F200). >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this help ... >>>>>> >>>>>> Guglielmo >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 04.07.2012 07:13, J. Landman Gay wrote: >>>>>>> On 7/3/12 6:15 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: >>>>>>>> Whoops. Didn't mean to use that subject line... have to stop drinking >>>>>>>> at lunch time... here's another try. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> A client just directed me to Font Awesome. >>>>>>>>> http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ >>>>>>>>> I'm not familiar with Twitter Bootstrap, for which it was designed, >>>>>>>>> but it looks immediately useful for LC. >>>>>>>>> It's basically a very large monochrome icon collection in vector >>>>>>>>> format, and also collected as a TrueType font. >>>>>>>>> I expect it may be useful for both desktop and mobile development. >>>>>>>>> Seems like it could interesting with the new field capabilities. >>>>>>> Great find! I downloaded it but the ttf webfont file is empty and the >>>>>>> desktop one has only a handful of icons in it. The PDF is okay but I >>>>>>> can't extract the vectors from there. I'd rather have the font; anyone >>>>>>> know how to make those other formats work on a Mac? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >>> preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
