With thousands of Glyphs available in some OpenType fonts, finding exactly the one you need could be a time consuming task. In CS3, these’s been some major improvements to the Glyphs panel which make it a lot easier to find and insert the right Glyphs into your copy. The “Show” pop-up menu goes a long way in helping to solve this problem by allowing you to view a font by various preset categories. So, if you need to find the “Not Equal To” Glyph, choose the Math Symbols category from the Show pop-up menu, and only math symbol Glyphs will be shown in the palette. My favorite category is Recent Glyphs, because the chances of having to locate the same Glyph more than once are quite high. This category can be added to the top of the panel for permanent view by selecting Show Options from the panel’s option menu. All Recently Used Glyphs will be shown in this section until you quit the application.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
