PopChar 7.5 – Floating window shows available font characters.

May 27, 2016

PopChar X helps you get the most out of your font collection.
With its crystal-clear interface, PopChar X provides a frustration-free way to access any font’s special characters.

Expanded accessibility
Your Mac includes over 700 fonts, each of which contains thousands of characters — Why not make them as accessible as possible? PopChar X makes it happen.

Interface advantages
PopChar X displays easy-to-analyze tables of characters, giving you an ultra-convenient interface. You can’t access most of these characters from your keyboard — PopChar X puts them within your reach.

Liberating compatibility
No matter what app you are using, PopChar X brings snappy simplicity to all font-related tasks. Whether you’re working with a word processor or a Web browser, PopChar X integrates seamlessly.

Smarter searching
PopChar X’s seasoned search capabilities will help you find what you are looking for, whether you need to search for a character by name, identify fonts that contain specific characters, or explore the entire character set of a font.

What’s New

Version 7.5:

In Apple Color Emoji, PopChar now shows combination characters that are created from "zero width joiner" character sequences (such as couple and family icons).
The "Font Info" view now contains information about the font format (OpenType, TrueType, PostScript).
The keyboard shortcut for opening the PopChar window may now include the enter key.
Typing with the mouse pointer over the character table now starts a search without needing to select the search field first.
When a new version is available, the message in the Preferences window now also informs about the current version.
Fixes a cosmetic issue with partially truncated character descriptions.
More tolerant handling of dashes in license key.
Fixes an installation problem during an update when the previous version had been moved to the trash.
"invalid advancement" problems of fonts are now reported in the console log only once.
Fixes a problem that resulted in a large empty space when looking for a character in a collapsed group.
Improved handling of previous preference settings when switching between different PopChar versions.