Feature request: Alternate glyph selection

[ronnyb]

It would be cool when working with Opentype fonts with alternate glyphs, to be able to select a character with alternate glyphs and have AD present you the alternate glyphs, in the same manner as autocorrect presents alternate spelling suggestions beneath a misspelled word.

 

Thanks for your consideration.

[Dave Harris]

Yes, this is one of the OpenType areas where we still have work to do.

[lagayascienza]

I agree, a way to access all glyphs in a font is what I need the most. ronnyb's suggestion is nice but a simple panel showing all glyphs in the current font would already be great.

 

For now I use Font Book or a small utility called PopChar to select the glyph I need, but it is cumbersome, and some fonts (Adobe Caslon Pro for example) have characters that are not mapped to a unicode code point and cannot be pasted in AD. 

[Dave Harris]

The current Mac App Store version does now include previews in its Typography panel, and this now supports OpenType features for All Alternates and Stylistic Alternates. We still need a way to browse all the glyphs in a font, that works for all fonts even if they don't do OpenType; that will come in due course.