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Re: Webdings et.al. ?
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Re: Webdings et.al. ?


  • Subject: Re: Webdings et.al. ?
  • From: Andrew Pinski <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:32:11 -0400

That is because you have to use a different encoding rather than
ASCI or UTF-8 to get webdings from regular characters.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 03:18 , Julian Barkway wrote:

On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 08:51 pm, Robert Miller wrote:

Am I missing something ? I have an NSTextView that I want to display certain character(s) with using the Webdings font. So I get the font using [NSFont fontWithName:@"Webdings" size:0], this returns and instance of the Webdings font. If I use the debugger to look at the NSFont its description says that it is 'CGS Webdings' ... I set the text of my NSTextView to be some character say 'G' using setString:@"G" , which is a solid box in Webdings if I'm not mistaken, then I set the font of the NSTextView the Webdings NSFont instance for the entire range in this case a single character using setFont:theFont range:theRange, yet when the text is displayed it is the 'G' character and not a Webdings symbol ? what could be going wrong ? Is there a trick to using non standard fonts ?

I recently had exactly this problem but when I finally got it to work (by using a slightly different version of the Dingbats font I had lying around) my alpha testers complained they could only see the underlying alphabetic character. In the end, I gave up and designed myself a very simple custom image which I then 'aquafied' using Ben Haller's excellent AquaTint app. Needless to say, this looks very much better than the Dingbat I originally used....
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