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• • November 22, 2010 at 11:15 am #57854
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Using my own version of ID, I have created my personalized glyph set, containing the few dozen Unicode glyphs I use most often.

    Now I would like to use this glyph set on my PC at work as well. How do I copy this very glyph set to another PC?

  • November 22, 2010 at 2:31 pm #57859
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Aren't those stored in files somewhere in your Users/[your name]/Adobe/InDesign/5.0/ [etc.] path? I've seen these somewhere before …

    (Can't recall the actual path from memory :P and also not “behind the right computer”)

  • November 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm #57861
    David Blatner

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    Yes, these are saved in a folder called “Glyph Sets”, but not in the application folder. In the Mac its in Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 7.0/

    On the PC…? Um… probably on a similar path inside the Settings folder.

  • November 24, 2010 at 8:13 am #57872
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks for your replies, Jongware and David.

    So I have found and replaced

    (1) the folder “(Glyphs Panel Resources)” under “C:ProgrammeAdobeAdobe InDesign CS5Plug-InsText(Glyphs Panel Resources)”, and then I've also replaced

    (2) “Glyphs Panel.apln” under the same location (ie., one step higher).

    Both ways did not work: (1) did not change anything, (2) caused a crash (“would you like to tell Microsoft?” or something similar).

    That means I have to manually look for and add the glyphs I use most often. Which leads me to a follow-up question: is there a nice way to do that?

    Often I would have a Unicode code point (such as U+02BF) that I should add to the Glyph panel. Now in my view, browsing through the Glyphs panel and locating what you are looking for is a frustrating experience, given that there are so many characters (the presence of which, in turn, is a joyful experience, I hasten to add). It would be nice to just type in something like “02BF” and be presented with the character in the panel, and be able to add it to the the customized glyph panel.

  • November 24, 2010 at 9:24 am #57879
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Ouch! InDesign was right to complain, you are moving components of the actual program around! (So I hope you restored them to their original position straight away.) The glyph sets are in a folder called “Glyph Sets”, as David said, so that wasn't the smartest thing to try …

    Behind my Window system I can find this folder at C:Users[My Actual Name Here]AppDataRoamingAdobeInDesignVersion 6.0en_GBGlyph Sets (you can see why I couldn't recall the full path from memory), and in it I find two little files “Glyph Set 1” — which I made for the occasion — and “Recent Glyphs”.

    That's on a Windows 7 machine, the full path may well be slightly, somewhat, or entirely different on other versions of Windows, and possibly also whether ID was installed as “Administrator” or “User”.

  • November 25, 2010 at 1:44 am #57897
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    This helped, thank you! And yes, I have restored the files to its original position …

    Just for the record: on a Windows XP machine, the folder “Glyph Sets” is stored under C:Dokumente und EinstellungensaAnwendungsdatenAdobeInDesignVersion 7.0de_DEGlyph Sets

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