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shelleyvon
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December 1, 2019
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Photoshop Elements 2020 Open Type Font Alternative Characters?

  • December 1, 2019
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Hello, friends!  Can someone please help...I just need to know if Photoshop elements 2020 supports the alternative charaters/glyphs in open type fonts.  Support said yes on the phone and chat, so I downloaded it and I don't see how to access the additional characters.  Does anyone know?  Thank you in advance!

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LisaofYork
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April 27, 2020

I have spent SO MUCH time figuring this out.

 

First this was an incredible tutorial for a MAC. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urGmdJehdwo&t=8s

for PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KwVkqxX1E

 

So I would start there. They, however, didn't work for me but can blatantly see it works for them here. 

I ended up downloading an app called Ultra Character Map. I work on a MacBookPro 2014 and I had to copy the image from the app AS A PICTURE....not TEXT. It says:

"If you can’t paste the glyph, try the Copy as Picture command instead. Glyph-to-character mappings are determined by the font’s author."

 

So it worked as a picture and I will take it!!

 

GOOD LUCK! 

 

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2019

It could be that font doesn't have that Glyph.

 

What font and Glyph do you want to use?

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shelleyvonAuthor
Participant
December 9, 2019

An example--Adios Script Pro opentype has three different options for the capital M and the character map doesn't show them.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2019

In the Character Map click on the symbol, click Select, click Copy, then back in photoshop elements right click and Paste or press Ctrl+V

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    shelleyvonAuthor
    Participant
    December 9, 2019

    Thanks, Jeff! (What if you can't see all the extra glyphs in character map?)

    Jeff Arola
    Community Expert
    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 1, 2019

    While it's true that pse 2020 most likely would support alternate characters/glyphs, adobe

    does not provide any means to set the alternate characters/glyphs in photoshop elements, so

    i guess the answer is no.

     

    On both windows and mac you can use the Character Map (windows) or Character Viewer (mac)

    to insert alternate characters/glyphs into your type in pse 2020.

     

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      shelleyvonAuthor
      Participant
      December 9, 2019

      Thanks, Jeff!  How do you use the character map to insert alternate characters/glyphs into my type when they only have a Unicode like "U+056F"?  I only know how to get them when they have the Alt+number.

      Thank you so much!  :0 )

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