CharView for Mac
Shows all characters within fonts.
$9.50
In English
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CharView overview
CharView allows you to type unusual characters from keyboard. It displays all of the symbols of a selected font, allowing you to quickly choose between the different character sets. Features include:
- system-wide utility window (floating above documents windows)
- menu icon (small icon shown in menubar, CharView main window hidden before the user moves the mouse pointer into this icon)
- view font symbols in ASCII (256 chars) or Unicode (entire font)
- auto-zoomed (magnified) symbol in table without a click
- copy symbol to the clipboard and insert it into the frontmost application with one click
- insert symbol, it's HTML entity, decimal or hexadecimal code into the frontmost application with one click from contextual menu
- fully resizable window
- up to 20 of the last used fonts remembered
- fonts grouped by families for fast searching of fonts
- editable font name field for fast switching fonts
- works with all native OS X, OS X Classic applications (version 3.8.3)
What’s new in version 3.8.5
Version 3.8.5:
- Fixed minor incompatibles with OS X 10.7
- Removed PPC code
CharView for Mac
$9.50
In English
Version 3.8.5
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Jan 21 2011
Version: 3.8.3
Such a useful and well priced application. Such a shame that the author hasn't bothered to update. Its very definitely unstable now in relation to where it is plaved in the launch order.
Oct 31 2008
Version: 3.8.3
Nice price but annoying in some of it's functionality, like slowing boot-up time.
PopChar is much better, but at $40 not worth it for the functionality.
Apr 27 2006
Version: 3.7.1
Until it is registed, this program pops up a nag window every few minutes (even if it is not being used). It is so annoying that I cannot tolerate it long enough to evaluate. This is certainly not an effective way to encourage people to use and pay for their program.
Nov 11 2004
Version: 3.1
This software seems to work like a virus. Once it gets into the system 10.3.6, you can't quit it. The little "cent" sign appears in the upper left and the only way to get rid of it is to shut down the computer. Also some of the characters that the pop down menu show appear different when pasted into the Word document.
And even when the program is running the dock icon doesn't show a little arrow.
Not very user friendly.
Apr 16 2004
Version: 3.0.3
It works well but takes a very long time at boot-up Looking for fonts. I E-Mailed the author about this but so far have received no reply - still good though as I use spanish characters in some of my correspondence. Perhaps the author may read this and include a cache of some kind so that the app doesnn't search for fonts each time around?