displaying webding font in max 6
Hi list,
I've allready post about this problem last year with no answer.
Today, after updating to Yosemite, still have the same issue :
Max 6 cannot display Webdings font in its objects.
I use to create buttons like "play/pause" or "loop" with Webdings characters
4 for "play", ";" for "pause", "9" for "backward", ":" for "forward"...
works find in Max 5.
In Max 6, the characters are displayed in a normal font : "4", ";", "9"...
NativeTextRendering is on
Any idea ?
How,
seems more complicated than that.
I'm searching you're "c) input symbols using Apple’s Character Viewer" tips now...
Ok, I've found the Apples Character Viewer.
I'can now insert some of the special characters it suggests in a text button.
but it doesn't contain the characters I used to find in the wingins or wedding fonts like
any idea ?
why can't I just write with those fonts in Max 6 as I did in previous versions ?
Here is another way without the Character Viewer, but with the FontBook:
- Create a new [textbutton]
- select object, do menu Object-> Show Fonts
- set Font to Webdings
- now, open the Inspector, select Text "Off" Label, delete text
- open FontBook (in Applications / Utilities)
- look for Webdings, you'll be able to see all glyphs
- click on the one you want, copy
- switch back to Max, still in the text button inspector "Paste". The character is not displayed correctly in the Inspector, but it is when you look at the text in the text button
Thank you Jean-François,
it works.
but it's way more complicated than the basic method.
Still waiting for a explanation from the cycling team...
OK, here is another way to make things easier.
1. Add the "Character Viewer" in your Menu Bar (System Preferences -> Keyboard -> check "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar")
2. Show Character Viewer. In the left menu, you see different kinds of glyphs (Arrows, Parentheses, Punctuation, etc.)
At the top of this column, see the little gear and triangle: open to bring down a menu.
Choose "Customize List..." in the menu.
In the list, check "Dingbats". Close the list.
3. Now, when you select in the left options "Dingbats" (should appear), you can choose the Webdings & Wingdings fonts, and choose the characters you were looking for.
4. Make a new comment in Max, enter the comment, open the character Viewer, double click on the glyph you want to insert, it should work, now!
It work's too,
thank you !
Hello maxers, I'm back !
more than 3 years after... now I'm on El Capitan (X.11.2).
Font Book as vanished
Caracter Viewer too
Still cannot display webding font correctly in TextButton
Any new idea ?