mac-kurzundgut: PopChar X 4.3 - Floating window shows available font characters. (Shareware)

Dienstag, 24. November 2009

PopChar X 4.3 - Floating window shows available font characters. (Shareware)

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PopChar X 4.3

PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented letters, umlauts, etc. from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document.

If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

Features

Simple to use, just click and select,
Inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts,
Automatic Font Detection,
Full Unicode support,
Character Search Function,
Various Insertion Options,
Insertion of HTML Symbols,
Recent Characters View,
Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters,
Automatically starts at login.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 4.3:

PopChar now supports the font collections defined in Font Book and the Mac OS X font panel.
It is now possible to restrict the font list to only those fonts that contain the currently marked character.
Improved compatibility with Snow Leopard.
Support for Unicode 5.2.
PopChar now displays standard space characters with a visible representation that indicates the width of the space.
New 'Check for Updates' menu item in the PopChar pop-up menu.
New technique for easy installation and update.
Improved version checking during beta tests.
Clipboard saving and restoration is now done more efficiently.
Works around a problem where invalid clipboard contents could lead to a high CPU load when PopChar was not currently used.
Restoration of the clipboard can now be temporarily turned off by option-clicking characters.
Improved handling of special cases for Java applications.
More flexible adaptation to applications with special requirements.
Internal unification of various application-specific configurations and font-detection techniques.
Avoids warning messages about certain deprecated methods under Snow Leopard.
PopChar now has a support interface that simplifies registration and various support activities.
The version check now includes dynamic updates of special cases for certain applications.
Default buttons in sheets are now correctly highlighted.
Faster font list update when the set of installed fonts changes.
PopChar now disables the 'As in Document' setting for Excel to avoid a bug in Excel that terminates editing of spreadsheet cells.
Fixes an issue with overlapping items in the French localization.
Works around a problem in MS Word that caused the creation of bookmarks for every copied piece of text when PopChar is active.
Fixes a visual glitch where the magnifier could become larger than the screen for ASCII characters.
Fixes an inconsistency between the status of the font drawer and the Show/Hide Font List menu command.
Fixes some known memory leaks.
Avoids a console log error message about unsupported style masks on Snow Leopard.
Compact storage of application-specific settings.