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Sunday, February 27, 2011, 08:00 pm
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Font Book 3, Emoji support
Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, and has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms.Font Book 3.0 now provides more flexible displays of the character glyphs supplied by a particular font face, with the standard alphabetical list augmented with a display of every glyph used in the font, and an information panel that lists its full metadata.
The information panel (below) presents every supported language, the version, its installed location, a description of the font, its copyright and trademark data, the number of glyphs supplied, whether it is embeddable, enabled, copy protected or installed as a duplicate.
Duplicate font files are flagged with a warning icon, and can be fixed automatically or resolved manually from a comparison drop down sheet (below).
The new Apple Color Emoji font supplies 502 glyphs in a TrueType font. Apple previously added emoticon support in iOS within Japanese input, which replaced typed characters with suggested faces created from Roman characters. The new move in Lion suggests company is likely to add actual Emoji input to the iOS as well.
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Who writes this stuff? Let's all just jump to conclusions so.
I don't get what's wrong with what was written.
OMG! I though Apple has forgotten Font Book and their designer base. A good change.
Glad to see this getting attention. I've run into the duplicate font problem in Snow Leopard and it is a little clunky to resolve at the moment.
Not mad about emoji, but I'm glad those that are are getting it I suppose. Not sure it's so outrageous a conclusion to jump to that it will get iOS support...it has made an appearance in the past after all.
Does this manage all the fonts in Adobe CS?
Does this manage all the fonts in MS Office?
If not, then, whatever.
I'm never going anywhere near font book again. Ever. Font problems are the 9th circle of hell. FontAgent Pro all the way.
Really liking the new UI, and the improvements overall in Lion. I was not completely blown away by what was announced at back to the mac, but the more details come out the more I feel like its going to be another solid update to the OS. The only thing I wonder now is weather it will be 149 , 29 or somewhere in between for the update.
Does this manage all the fonts in Adobe CS?
Does this manage all the fonts in MS Office?
If not, then, whatever.
What do you mean? Anything you add to Font Book is accessible through CS...
I never have any pity for anyone choosing to use Office on a mac. Pages blew Office into my bin long ago
I'm confused on some comments... Emoji has always been on iOS...
Nice to see it come to Mac OS X tho
Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, ...
Any improvement is good but IMO this seems only slightly less underwhelming than the current font management system. Apple has never been very creative nor seemingly interested in spending much time on these sorts of details of the OS it seems.
Given that all this stuff is supposed to be under NDA, that it's a Sunday (traditionally a day where we are lucky to get a single story from Apple Insider), and that they've already posted copious details on every other aspect of Lion, perhaps this one could have been left on the cutting room floor, as it were?
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The new move in Lion suggests company is likely to add actual Emoji input to the iOS as well.
Who writes this stuff? Let's all just jump to conclusions so.