PopChar is an invaluable utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters etc. from all installed fonts into your documents.
PopChar allows you to insert special characters, foreign letters and more. You never need to search for or remember complex keystrokes again! Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character is inserted into your current document.
PopChar is the Windows sibling of the famous PopChar utility, which has been available on the Macintosh for many years. Now you can enjoy the ease of use of these award-wining Macintosh utilities on the Windows platforms. If a font contains Unicode characters, you can check "Unicode" in the Settings menu to see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.
· Inserts special characters right into your document - just click and select
· Search for characters by name as quickly as you type. For example, show all variations of the letter "E", all "numbers", all "arrows", etc.
· Recent characters view for instant access to your frequently used characters
· Flexible user interface to satisfy the individual needs of different users
· Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters
· Displays all characters of all fonts available on your computer
· Automatically detects the current font in many popular applications (including Word, Excel, Illustrator, PageMaker)
· Optimized Font menu that contains only the most recently used fonts, giving quick access to the required font, even with hundreds of fonts installed
· Full Unicode support with different comfortable views and pop-up menu for quick navigation among groups of characters
· Various insertion Modes: Insert characters as plain or formatted text
· Magnifier tool providing an enlarged view to see all details of characters including their position relative to the baseline
· Inserts HTML symbols
· Finds all fonts that contain a given character
· Lets you define favorite fonts and favorite characters
· Hot key activation
· Automatically starts at login
Limitations:
· Some special characters are disabled
What's New in This Release:
· A new custom size slider allows to individually shrink or enlarge the display per font, relative to the global character size setting in PopChar's preferences.
· During installation, a possibly running PopChar instance is now exited later, right before installing the new version.
· Automatically exits a possibly running PopChar instance during uninstall.
· In a few cases PopChar got started twice at login.
· Minor improvements in the help file.