P: Add a Glyphs panel

I would like it like the InDesign Glyph Panel (slightly better than the one in Illustrator imo.).

For your info, CS6's character panel has more OpenType options: ligatures, fractions... But I understand the fact that it might be frustrating to see options in one program of the Suite, and not in the other.

Long time no read, Ann!

Personally, I find the InDesign CS5 Glyphs Panel to have been exceptionally well done.

Even if you can't create something quite as comprehensive as that for Photoshop, just a more basic panel (with less ways of choosing listings) would help — even if it only showed all of the alternate glyphs that were available in a font for a selected character.

We've been talking to the type department - which is why we know it's not as obvious as it seems. If we're going to do it, we need to make sure we do it right.

But weren't you the guy who had shoes?

;)

Former iterations of the Illustrator glyph palette were just a straight table of all the glyphs in the currently active font, ordered by their glyph ID. Recent versions of Illustrator introduced sorting oprions and the ability to show related glyphs in a small sub-popup.

The latter functionality is neat but even just a simple palette withou oprions would do. Note that it's important that — like InDesign and Illustrator — the palette should dosplay all of a font's glyphs, not just the encoded characters. Many OpenType fonts include alternate glyphs rhat don't have a Unicode.

Since it's already posdible to use the glyphs pallette in Illustrator to enter such glyphs, then copy-paste them to Photoshop and they are being retained, it's evident that Photoshop can deal with unencoded glyphs already, it's just a matter of exposing them in the UI.

Miguel Sousa or David Lemon of the Adobe Type Department can provide you with insights as to how the details can be implemented.

That's ok, some of us went to the same school and lived in that same hill/valley.

What does communication have to do with implementing a glyphs palette? The applications can't share much code.

I only had PostScripts (in two parts!) — Mac version — back in 1996 and i was using them on a whacking great Varityper Phototypesetting machine before that!

And it didn't have a Glyphs panel either!

:(

I know: Walk to school; in the snow; uphill each way; and without shoes?!