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I'm doing a simple sign for a local deli- 1/2 Chicken Dinner...for some reason the 1/2 no longer shows up. It's just a box. It happens with every font. What did I inadvertantly change to cause this?
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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EVERY font? Some fonts don't have the ½ alternate character.
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yup, what Frank said.. a lot of fonts don't have a ½ symbol. So take a 1 and a 2 in the appropriate font, position a home-made slashie between them, group it and shrink it down to size...
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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You can also find a font that does have the ½ and use that one. Try the ALT key. ALT + 0189 = ½ Altho I like Jon's Redneck method and have used it myself. Love....Jill
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Jill, I am far from the sharpest exacto in the sign kit, and have never been able to use ALT to get anything but little 'thunk' noise windows makes to tell you you're doing it wrong. I have to pull up the 'insert symbol character' docker in corel and scroll through the fonts to find what I'm after. There is something I'm missing that seems to be obvious to everyone else.
Not meaning to hijack this thread, it's just something that has always irritated me.
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Make sure you hold down the ALT key WHILE you key in the 0189 on the right-side keypad. Also, I think the numlock has to be on.
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Or you could just bookmark this post, and if you need them, jump back in here.... Copy and paste the symbols out of Jill's message right there...
But that'd be another redneck method.
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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The 1/2 is there in the appropriate font when I type it, then disappears when I hit enter. I'll try the alt thing
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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Ok, it didn't work, but I was able to get a temporary fix by going to text, insert character, select font and click and drag the characters to the CorelDraw workspace.
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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I've had that happen while testing fonts and can only attribute it to a wonked-out keyboard or little sign gremlins bent on undermining the American way of life.
-------------------- Michael Gene Adkins The Fontry 1576 S Hwy 59 Watts OK 74964 Posts: 845 | From: Watts, OK USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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Sign gremlins? I thought it was the communists...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Quick fix... Type in "1/2" then go to the node edit mode in Corel. Set them up the way you want by dragging the node on the lower left of the individual characters, then resize it as needed. On jobs like price boards, it's handy to have it a separate element you an copy and paste where you need.
Works with all fonts. Hope this helps... Rapid
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-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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