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Working with the Glyphs palette
A glyph is the smallest unit of a font each uppercase letter, for example, consists of its
own glyph. To access all the glyphs in a font especially an OpenType font that may
include approximately 65,000 glyphs you need to view a complete character map. You
can access such a character map in the Glyphs palette (Window menu), which enables
you to view all the glyphs in the selected font, view bold or italic glyphs, double-click a
glyph to insert that glyph in text, and save favorite glyphs for easy access.
The Glyphs palette makes it easy to work with large character sets and professional-quality
fonts.
To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and choose a
font from the Font menu in the upper-left corner. Options available in the Glyphs palette
include the following:
You can use the Bold and Italic buttons to display the bold and italic versions of glyphs;
if the bold, italic, or bold italic instance of the font is not active on your system, the
application will simulate bold, italic, or bold italic on the glyphs as it does when you apply
the Bold and Italic type styles using the Measurements palette.
To view a subset of the glyphs in the font, choose an option from the Show drop-down
menu.
To see any alternates available for a glyph, click the box in the lower-right corner of an
individual glyph's cell.
If necessary, click the Zoom tool on the palette to increase the size of the glyphs.
If you need a glyph's Unicode code point for HTML authoring, for example you can
point at the glyph to display the Unicode code point (represented as a hexadecimal).
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