P: Add a Glyphs panel

Per my and Adam's comments above, this only accesses encoded characters, NOT all the glyphs in the font.

OpenType was announced in 1996, but there were only a couple of fonts available until 2000, when they really started rolling out.

I am sure it works well, as long as you don't try to paste a glyph that is the alternate instead of the default. But that is critical functionality for most of us. See page 7 of the Adobe OpenType Guide (http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdf...).

Well, I was in no way trying to say it was EASIER. I was trying to help those out that wanted to use the glyphs in their fonts that they purchased but couldn't use. Isn't it better than not using it at all????? No need to be rude. Not sure why my comments trying to help is such a bad thing???? Hope you have a great day, mr. pessimistic.

Not sure what you mean, because it works well for me.

Thank you for this additional tip. I really appreciate the help. This is great for fonts on my home system. At work our office uses a professional font management system not Font Book. The server makes it easy to choose a font but not a special character beyond the 256 character set. There is no reason why Photoshop shouldn't have glyph panel feature.

Unfortunately, this does NOT actually work correctly. (1) Any glyph displayed in Font Book that is an unencoded alternate glyph ends up turning into a notdef glyph in Photoshop. (2) The font selection does not come along with the paste operation, just the character code.

You can find the full set of glyphs in your font via a different way.
I am a Mac user, and this is what I do:
Open Font Book via the Finder
Find your font, click on it. It is most likely in a "Sample" format. At the top of the window, click Preview, then Repertoire. Your full list of font & glyphs should come up.
Next, to use them, find the glyph you want, click/highlight it, copy (command c) then go to the program you want to use it in and paste (command v). Voila! It should be there now.

Gee Dessirae, that sounds way easier than just using one built into Photoshop. Especially for us Windows users... It's only 7 more steps than necessary. Not a time waster or anything. Adobe needs to start using some of the extra money they make via Creative Cloud subscriptions and put it to use by implementing simple features that have been requested for almost half a decade now...

Additionally, Dessirae, you don't need to post the same comment 5 times...

You can find the full set of glyphs in your font via a different way.
I am a Mac user, and this is what I do:
Open Font Book via the Finder
Find your font, click on it. It is most likely in a "Sample" format. At the top of the window, click Preview, then Repertoire. Your full list of font & glyphs should come up.
Next, to use them, find the glyph you want, click/highlight it, copy (command c) then go to the program you want to use it in and paste (command v). Voila!