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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:
- New context menu command finds all fonts that contain a given character.
- Works around a problem that caused certain third-party utilities to lock up the Mac when opening the PopChar window.
- Fixes a problem that caused PopChar to forget license information when preferences were synced with MobileMe.
- Fixes a crash in combination with certain keyboard layouts (such as Unicode Hex Input).
- Works around a bug in Mac OS X that caused incorrect vertical positioning of the PopChar table when the "use smooth scrolling" option was enabled in System Preferences.
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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Help - Version: 4.2, 7/31/2009 09:28AM PST
barbara5252
I downloaded this product and cannot find where to pay for it.
“What’s New” for v4.1.1 - Version: 4.1.1, 11/21/2008 07:34AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
dgkanter
While there’s no “What's new in this version” here in VersionTracker, here’s what I found at the developer’s site <http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/history.html>:
PopChar X v 4.1.1 (November 2008) - Changes since v 4.1:
Works around a problem with inserting characters in FreeHand 10.
Fixes a performance bottleneck caused by repeated access to certain preferences.
Fixes an occasional crash when expanding or collapsing Unicode groups.
Solves a problem that caused inserted characters to appear with a shadow in certain Carbon applications.
German localization now contains the correct quotes.
PopChar X v 4.1.1 (November 2008) - Changes since v 4.1:
Works around a problem with inserting characters in FreeHand 10.
Fixes a performance bottleneck caused by repeated access to certain preferences.
Fixes an occasional crash when expanding or collapsing Unicode groups.
Solves a problem that caused inserted characters to appear with a shadow in certain Carbon applications.
German localization now contains the correct quotes.
Word 2004 problems 
- Version: 4.1, 11/4/2008 09:16AM PST
geocal
When font recognition is selected I cannot type accents in Word 2004 MacOs 10.4.11. Still a useful but quite expensive utility.
