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PopChar X - 4.3

Type special characters without knowing the keyboard combos.

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All Time:	(4.1)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.3
Release Date:	2009-11-24
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	2,309
Downloads (all versions):	19,371
Price:	$29.99

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Product Description:

PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented letters, umlauts, etc. from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document. If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories. Features. Simple to use, just click and select, Iinserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts, Automatic Font Detection, Full Unicode support, Character Search Function, Various Insertion Options, Insertion of HTML Symbols, Recent Characters View, Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters, Automatically starts at login.

What's new in this version:

PopChar now supports the font collections defined in Font Book and the Mac OS X font panel.
It is now possible to restrict the font list to only those fonts that contain the currently marked character.
Improved compatibility with Snow Leopard.
Support for Unicode 5.2.
PopChar now displays standard space characters with a visible representation that indicates the width of the space.
New "Check for Updates" menu item in the PopChar pop-up menu.
New technique for easy installation and update.
Improved version checking during beta tests.
Clipboard saving and restoration is now done more efficiently.
Works around a problem where invalid clipboard contents could lead to a high CPU load when PopChar was not currently used.
Restoration of the clipboard can now be temporarily turned off by option-clicking characters.
Improved handling of special cases for Java applications.
More flexible adaptation to applications with special requirements.
Internal unification of various application-specific configurations and font-detection techniques.
Avoids warning messages about certain deprecated methods under Snow Leopard.
PopChar now has a support interface that simplifies registration and various support activities.
The version check now includes dynamic updates of special cases for certain applications.
Default buttons in sheets are now correctly highlighted.
Faster font list update when the set of installed fonts changes.
PopChar now disables the "As in Document" setting for Excel to avoid a bug in Excel that terminates editing of spreadsheet cells.
Fixes an issue with overlapping items in the French localization.
Works around a problem in MS Word that caused the creation of bookmarks for every copied piece of text when PopChar is active.
Fixes a visual glitch where the magnifier could become larger than the screen for ASCII characters.
Fixes an inconsistency between the status of the font drawer and the Show/Hide Font List menu command.
Fixes some known memory leaks.
Avoids a console log error message about unsupported style masks on Snow Leopard.
Compact storage of application-specific settings.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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not working properly on snow leopard + imac 27" - Version: 4.3, 12/30/2009 09:09AM PST

orrao

Im using this little precious app since year, but on my new imac27 its almost impossibile to click in the window, which keep moving here and there while trying to use it... A bug to be fixed soon, hopefully!

Lovely Little App - Version: 4.3, 12/2/2009 03:32PM PST

Karyl

This has been a favorite of mine for several years. It sits there very quietly in the corner of my screen taking up very little space or processing power. But when I need to find that odd symbol or character, I just click on it to find it and paste it into my document. I can even see all of the different variants of the character across all of my fonts. And now it has so many more features, it's just amazing! I wouldn't know what to do without it.

Help - Version: 4.2, 7/31/2009 09:28AM PST

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barbara5252

I downloaded this product and cannot find where to pay for it.