CharView 3 Documentation |
Instructions
Main window
Setup
CharView menus
Fast font search
Inserting a symbol
Inserting an HTML entity
Menu icon
Moving menu icon
Main window of CharView looks like this:
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- Font popup menu (if Font
grouping is enabled you can see two menus - font family
name and font style name)- click and select the
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Main window floating above all documents windows, it can be hidden (shown by the menu
icon).
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At the first launch of CharView its menu
icon is enabled, Dock icon is invisible. Move mouse pointer above menu icon and main window will be
shown.
To change application options, click Preferences bevel button and select Preferences... item. You'll see the
default settings:
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- Movable
Menu Icon |
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- Group fonts by families If enabled, fonts in font menu will be groupped by names - Remember YYY last fonts used If enabled, the last YYY fonts will be shown at the top of the fonts menu. - Use magnification with font size: - set font size of selected (magnified) symbol (if checked) |
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- Move Menu Icon Here you can setup key combination for menu icon moving (and show if it is invisible) - Stop magnification Key combinations for emporarily disabling auto-magnification of selected character. |
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- Clipboard-driven insertion for Classic If enabled, CharView will show itself and than hide again after clicking in the characters table (if Dock Icon Visible enabled). Not needed if you plan to use OS X - native applications only or Dock Icon Visible not checked. - Dock Icon Visible If checked, CharView's icon will be shown in Dock, if not checked - CharView will work as background-only process. - Show 5 last inserted characters If checked, CharView will hilite last 5 inserted characters in the table. |
CharView menu: |
CharView menu attached to Preferences ![]() - About CharView ... - shows info about application - Refresh fonts - refreshes fonts menu - Page setup ... - shows system Page setup dialog - Print - here you can print font's characters tables (ASCII or Unicode) |
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Font name can be typed directly by user in font name text
box. CharView will try to help you when you type and set font names based on your input. |
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Follow this steps to insert a symbol into the frontmost
application: 1. Move the mouse pointer above CharView main window. 2. Select the font. 3. Move the mouse pointer over the symbols table. By default, the symbol under the pointer will be zoomed. 4. Click on it. The selected symbol will be copied to clipboard and inserted into the frontmost application. You can right-click (or Ctrl+click) on symbol to show contextual
menu. Using it you can insert not only symbol itself, but also it's HTML entity, decimal
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Follow this steps to insert an HTML entity or symbol code number into the frontmost
application:
1. Click button to enable "HTML
mode"
2. Follow the instructions from Inserting a symbol to insert
HTML entity or code number for selected symbol.
Also you can directly insert HTML entity using contextual menu without
enabling "HTML mode" first.
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If the menu icon is enabled, the small icon is
shown on the menubar .
Move the mouse pointer above it and the main window will be shown like a menu. No click
nesessary.
Move the mouse pointer out of the main window and window will be hidden.
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You can move the menu icon in the menubar to
any position.
To do this: click in the menu icon while holding down the special keys
(setup in Preferences), and drag it to the preferred location.
When drag starts you'll hear a system beep.
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