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Posted on 21/11/08 4:02:19 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply  |
were are the Symbols
Hi All I am using the text tool to add wording to an image and need to add the copy right and registered trade mark symbols but cant find them can anyone help |
Posted on 21/11/08 4:21:02 PM |
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Steve Mac
Grunge Genie Posts: 539 Reply  |
Re: were are the Symbols
This link may help. I had the same issue. http://www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=02&topic_id=1217082941 |
Posted on 23/11/08 3:56:33 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply |
Re: were are the Symbols
thanks steve thats great |
Posted on 23/11/08 6:02:30 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: were are the Symbols
Do you realise that the forum has quite a good search facility. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 24/11/08 4:52:02 PM |
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dave.cox
Marquee Master Posts: 518 Reply  |
Re: were are the Symbols
Check your shapes tool, those symbols are all there. You can also get them from your default fonts. If you are on a PC hold down the alt key and type 0169 on the numeric keypad to get the copyright symbol ©. 0153 us the tradmark symbol ™. If you have an ascii chart, you can look up any character in the ascii character list. If you have MS Word, it is built in. You can get it from the symbols menu. |
Posted on 24/11/08 10:00:21 PM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply  |
Re: were are the Symbols
lol, I always wondered what the keyboard shortcuts were for those symbols. How on earth did the programmer decide that combination should be the "shortcut" for the two symbols? Thanks for the hint, Dave. |
Posted on 25/11/08 00:52:27 AM |
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dave.cox
Marquee Master Posts: 518 Reply |
Re: were are the Symbols
These aren't really "Shortcuts" but a way of accessing the Ascii character map. This method of accessing the character map dates all the way back to the first IBM PCs that were produced. Those first PCs actually came with Basic, which was built in to a ROM chip, just in case you didn't have a disk drive, and couldn't load DOS. (DOS = Disk Operating System). Those PCs had an 8088 microprocessor, and typically shipped with 128k of memory. The first 128 characters, (0 - 127,) were part of what was called the standard character map. It included some control characters, and the standard characters found on the keyboard. Characters 128-255 were part of the "Extended Character Set." Even to this day, it is not uncommon for some fonts to only use the first 128 characters. In those first computers, the Alt character map key combination was often the only way to access some of the extended characters. Since those character sets have been now greatly expanded, 255 characters, (Which in Hex is 00-FF.) if often not enough, which is why you now have to type 4 characters. So instead of "Alt 169" it is now "Alt 0169." Check out this ASCII Character Map |