Comments on: The Apple Symbols font: a great repository for iPhone button icons

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:25:55 +0000

I managed to pull the glyphs into Photoshop by getting the character into TextEdit and saving as PDF. I then opened the PDF in Illustrator and voila, there was the path. Then you can just copy/paste the path into Photoshop.

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By: Diego Freniche

Diego Freniche — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:45:45 +0000

Nice trick!
Thanks!

By: Eddie Marks

Eddie Marks — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:33:31 +0000

If you look at the bottom right of the character viewer there is a button that says “Insert with Font”. If your active window is a program that can accept these characters (such as TextEdit), that button will be active, and clicking it will insert the character into your text.

My Photoshop CS4, however, will not accept any of the characters in the 4800+ range, which is basically all the ones I want for my iPhone apps.

By: Walt Sellers

Walt Sellers — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:48:18 +0000

I recall hitting this one myself when I found those font entries.

I recall taking an intermediate trip through TextEdit to put the symbols I wanted into a text or RTF file, then copy and pasting from there to GIMP. (My copy of PhotoShop 7 quit working with OS X 10.5 and I was making do.)

My goal was a png file of the symbol with a transparent background and this did work. Pixelmator makes the same job pretty easy for me now (and a lot cheaper than PhotoShop.)

When I didn’t need a transparent background, taking a screen shot of a large-sized font symbol in TextEdit did a good job.

By: SW

SW — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:22:36 +0000

How can I copy one of these symbols into Photoshop to work with them? Copy/paste doesnt work for the hidden symbols… Please help!