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PopChar X

PopChar X - 3.1

view & insert all characters of a font

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Version 3.1: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 3.1
Release Date: 2006-11-20
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 3.1): 0
Downloads (all versions): 19,370
Price: $29.99

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Product Description:

PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters, etc., into your documents. No need to search for and remember keyboard combinations. 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.

You can use the character table of PopChar X like a menu or make it "sticky" to insert multiple characters in a row. PopChar X also allows you to select the font and size of the characters to be inserted.
  • simple to use: click and select
  • displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters
  • selectable font
  • remembers and hilites the most recently selected characters
  • Unicode support
  • inserts HTML symbols
  • automatically detects the current font in many popular applications (including Word, Excel, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, InDesign, FileMaker and BBEdit)
  • manual font selection (in applications where PopChar X cannot determine the current font
  • exclude common characters (letters, digits and accents)
  • "styled" and "unstyled" character insertion
  • resizeable window (up to the full screen)
  • "sticky mode" lets you insert multiple characters with a series of clicks
  • automatically starts at login
  • also works with Classic applications

If you purchased your license within the last two years, the upgrade is free for you, and your current license key will work for the new version. If your 2 years update period has expired, you can purchase a 2 years update renewal. Whereas other software vendors offer upgrades at a reduced price for just a single new version, our licenses cover ALL subsequent releases of PopChar X and PopChar Pro within two years, starting with the date of purchase.

What's new in this version:

  • Automatic font detection ("As in Document") now works with Pages (v.2.0 or newer).
  • PopChar now uses a more sophisticated technique to determine the best font size to display. As a result, many fonts are now shown in larger sizes, so the characters can be recognized more easily.
  • PopChar detects corrupted fonts and displays a warning message on attempts to display an unusable font.
  • PopChar now uses less memory and reacts faster when the current keyboard layout changes.
  • In ASCII mode, the non-breaking space character was displayed and inserted as a regular space character.
  • PopChar now works around a bug in QuarkXPress that resulted in insertion of a question mark instead of the selected character.
  • The "As In Document" feature sometimes failed immediately after inserting a character.
  • PopChar now detects and works around anomalies in fonts with incorrect size information.
  • Fixes a problem that could cause high memory load and slow response when PopChar had been active for a long time.
  • Fixes a problem with certain applications that refused to insert selected characters.
  • See the product page for details.

Operating System Requirements:

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

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
  • Universal Binary

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Version 3.1:
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PopChar X Troubleshooting Reportnot 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!
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PopChar X ReviewLovely 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.
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PopChar X Troubleshooting ReportHelp - 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.
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