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Mark,

You realize that it can be over 64,000 characters, of course.

Neil

Well, in theory. But very few fonts will be over about 26,000 glyphs. If it's a western OpenType font, very few will be over 4,000 glyphs.

T

Still, even 4,000 glyphs is potentially a lot of characters to try and display in a single text box, even without the character position number and character name.

I think the challenge here is just to be able to present this in a simple usable form.

Neil

On Jul 9, 5:04 pm, Mark_Mu...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a utility or an InDesign script or plug-in that would allow me to place every character of a font in a text box in InDesign. That includes all of the upper/expert character positions on OpenType fonts. Ideally, I'd like to display the character position number, and the character name (if the character has a name) followed by the character. If it were in a table, all the better. I'm looking to do this largely for troubleshooting purposes, to confirm what characters output correctly when the file is printed or exported.
>
> Since we're dealing with some older PostScript fonts that were converted to OpenType and some new OpenType fonts, the number of characters in the fonts is going to vary. I imagine that would present some scripting challenges.
>
> If the utility is external to InDesign but allows the functionality I need, such that I can copy and paste from it into InDesign, that would suit my purposes fine.

I describe one technique for doing this in my TUG2003 paper:

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf

Basically one writes out a sample Adobe Tagged Text file, modifies it
to have one entry per character then pulls it back in.

For 8-bit fonts this could certainly be done using style sheets though
(create a template w/ a character style using a font you want to test
w/ all characters entered, then re-define the character style for each
font).

Probably it could be done via scripting though.

William