Character Viewer

Character Viewer displays thousands of glyphs or images of characters, but it does not identify the Font and/or Keystroke needed to type the character. Double clicking does insert the character. Selecting the character then identifies the Font name, but choosing that Font name, no combination of keystrokes reproduces the character. Is there a way to identify the Font/Keystrokes of these characters in Character Viewer or Keyboard Viewer?
For example: Character:Pictographs displays a Caduceus. Double clicking it inserts the Caduceus image in an Excel cell. Selecting that image in Excel identifies the Font as Menlo Bold. However, using Menlo Bold as a Font there seems no Keystroke that will type that image. In Font Book examining Menlo Bold reveals a huge number of letters/symbols/images available, but no information about how to type them. Indeed, there are so many images there can't possibly be enough keystroke combinations to cover them all. I'm confused.
(Note to Admin. If this query is in wrong forum please move it)

So thanks, that sort of helps. However, I quickly learned that Office does not respond to the System Preference settings (I set opt-c to type a caduceus), while Mail does. I guess Apple software does and others don't? Word and Excel do respond to Character Viewer double click insertions. Does opt-c ç becomes caduceus? ç, NO, guess not. But Character Viewer produces ⚕. So Safari in this message does not respond to System Preferences either. Filemaker doesn't either. Just where does System Preferences:Language & Text:Text:symbol/text substitution work? Is there some other step that makes it work in Office, Filemaker, et. al.? I sort of feel like 1984 all over again. When I first got my MacPlus fonts were truly fascinating, and what the Mac allowed me to do with fonts seemed awesome (until Multifinder came along it was the neatest thing). I bought programs that let you draw your own fonts-I had Suitcases full of them and even memorized ASCI. Now all I really want is a single keystroke that will type a caduceus in MS Word. Please don't advise me to switch to AppleWorks or Pages. Clearly Character Viewer sends some code (?ASCI) to Word that inserts a caduceus. Is there a way I can do that without having to stop typing and start clicking after opening Character Viewer? I know I can save the caduceus in Clipboard and use Com-v for caduceus, but I use the Clipboard for other stuff too often. Clipboard? Does that date me too? Frankly, I miss it.

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How to get character viewer to show a specific font

Previously you could specify a font to see it's characters and glyphs. Now I don't see how to do that. What am I missing? or has that gone the way of font specification in the keyboard viewer too?

Yes, this feature has been omitted from Lion Character Viewer. You might try PopChar. And you can ask Apple to put it back here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

How to get Character Viewer to stay visible (esp. in Word for Mac)?

I'm asking this on behalf of a friend who has a 2013 13-inch (non-retina) MackBook Pro and uses it with an Apple Cinema Display. Since the upgrade to Mavericks the behaviour of the Character Viewer has changed, where it no longer 'sticks' (stays both active and on top) as a visible window when you switch applications: now it needs to be called up from within each application, and will be visible when working with that app.
He needs the Character Viewer open all the time and this change is inconvenient (he draws special characters from it constantly). But the main problem is that he mostly works in MS Word for Mac and as far as I can tell Microsoft have not updated Word to respect the behaviour Mavericks intends for Character Viewer: to stay visible while working. Instead, the Character Viewer window randomly closes. So, while hoping for an update from MS (but not holding breath since they provide their own inferior version of a glyph viewer in Word)) I have two questions:
1. Can anyone suggest a way, perhaps using Applescript or Automator (which I don't know how to use), to make the Character Viewer always stay open and visible while using any application? This would be the preferable solution, in effect restoring the behaviour seen before Mavericks.
Or
2. Can someone give us some guidance on how to make a custom keyboard shortcut in Word for Mac that we could assign to bring up the (OSX) Character Viewer, since the usual system shortcut for that (control-command-space) is not respected in Word. Or alternatively, an Applescript or Automator solution for this that would be available from within Word?
Thanks!

Did you try:
->System Preferences->Keyboard and check [ ] Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar
It closes when I switch desktops with spaces or open another App, but it displays when I go back to the Word window

Where is character view in 10.9.4?

I used to have in the old MacBook Air (OS 10.7.5) in the banner in the desktop window next to the computer name/date/clock/battery displays. On the new Air (10.9.4) I got nada. I went through system prefs, lightly googled, found nothing on "help," etc. Is it just gone in this version? I need it because I used accents in Mail, Word, Safari, etc.

The item used to be accessed from System Preferences> International> Input Menu.
Should be there -or in similar location- even now... Did you try a search?
OS X Mavericks: Use input sources to type in other languages
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input ...
search for a language or input source, then select one or more input sources. ...
Spell check foreign languages in Pages 09 MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) ...
OS X Mavericks: Use the Keyboard Viewer - Apple
support.apple.com › From the Input menu (looks like a flag or character) in the menu bar, choose the
input source for the language whose keyboard you want to view. Choose Show ...
OS X Mavericks: Enter special characters and symbols - Apple
support.apple.com ›
Option, Description. Open the Character Viewer: In a document, choose Edit > Special
Characters. Or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu ...
OS X Mavericks: Change the language your Mac uses - Apple
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Language & Region. ... typed
using the input source that's currently selected in the Input menu (looks like ...
If the Character Viewer isn’t shown in the Input menu, choose Apple menu > System Preferences,
click Keyboard, Keyboard viewer, then select “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar.”
Hopefully this helps; usually in the installed Help viewer is also a place to look up topics.
Good luck & happy computing!

How do you add a dingbat to character viewer in order to select it?

I understand that being unicode pages cannot use ITC Zaph dingbats from the keyboard that i need to use the special characters. very awkward! but how do i insert a character from zaph dignbat into special characters?
thank you

If I open Font Book, and choose named font, I can see a list of symbols, e.g.
If I open Character Viewer, and switch to Pictographs, I can see something like this
so I assume that named font includes chars in the category Pictographs, which you can use at ease, I hope.
If you need them frequently, you may create your custom keyboard layout, if you wish this, come back with what you wish.
Screenshots are in Lion, but the procedure is the same, I hope.

Glyph View in Character Viewer?

Back in Snow Leopard, we had the possibility to view all characters of a certain font if we selected "View>Glyph" in the character viewer. In Lion, this option seems to be missing. Is there any way to browse all characters of a specific font?
The reason I need this: I have several special fonts with symbols for scientific work (really specialized fonts, with characters you won't find in the symbols Apple provides). In SnowLeopard, they didn't show up in the character viewer as normal symbols, but in Glyph View one could select the font and then all characters were displayed, so one could easily select the right symbol (my friends using Windows could even assign a keyboard shortcut for each character in their character viewer).

No, thanks. That still doesn't let you show the characters that are availalble for a particular font. That big assortment of arrows it's showing? Essentially useless, because they're not available in any font I can find.
I did discover a cumbersome workaround by using both Font Book and Character Viewer.
1. Go into Font Book and select the "custom" preview. Put the cursor in that editable preview area.
2. Now go over to Character Viewer and double-click the character or symbol you're interested in. It will be pasted into the "custom" preview of Font Book. However, there's a bug; for some reason after the special character is pasted in, the glyphs that were showing for the font will return to being boxes. You have to select a different font and come back, in order to display the glyphs again.
You can now use the up/down arrow keys to step through all the fonts in Font Book and at least see which fonts have the character(s) you're looking for.

How do I insert Greek characters from the character viewer in Lion?

In Lion, the Character Viewer shows many more options for different characters than SL. Of course, it displays Latin, but, as I scientist I often need to insert Greek characters, but I cannot find Greek characters in the Character Viewer. I don't otherwise need to select Greek as a language. Inserting Greek characters from some applications like MS Word still works.
And ... while I'm here ... what happened to the "insert" button? -j

Click the gear icon to edit your list:
Select Customize List:
and check "Greek"

How do I get character viewer to display the names of the radicals in Japanese, as they were until Lion

In Leopard, Character Viewer displayed the names of the radicals of Japanese characters in Japanese.
Now I have Lion, the radicals all have English names which are totally different and impossible to search phonetically. I can't find a way to choose the language of the Character Viewer. Do I have to set the whole iMac to use Japanese as its basic language? That would be a pain for everything else.
Thanks for looking.

If you put Japanese at the top of the Langauge tab list, but do not logout/login, then only newly opened apps will appear in Japanese. That way you can get only Character Viewer in Japanese. Maybe this will also work
http://www.tj-hd.co.uk/en-gb/languageswitcher/
Another approach would be to open the Character Viewer app and modify its .lproj folders.
If you still have a copy of Leopard, you may be able to transplant its Character Viewer app to Lion and use it as an independent app.

A lot of characters missing from "Character Viewer" .. can I get them?

Most musical symbols show an empty box.
Other categories too...
Could I've erased them? With CleanMyMac maybe?

Character Viewer isn't doing what I want it to do, can somebody help me?
Here's the issue: I have a font installed called Anastasia, which contains musical symbols. I would like to be able to bring up its whole character set on the screen so I can pick which character to insert in my document. It seems to me that this is what Character Viewer is intended to do; however, I can find no way to view the character set for this particular font, Anastasia. The "Muscial Symbols" collection brings up a limited set of symbols, such as notes, but it's an incomplete set and it does not show Anastasia as one of the available font variations. This font is definitely installed and at least one of my installed apps uses it routinely. But it doesn't seem to be accessible through Character Viewer. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

Character viewer window has no content

Character viewer is on top menu, the window comes up, with Math, Arrows, etc., but nothing shows up when I select any of the categories in left hand window.
Is there a preference file I can delete?
Thanks.

Is there a preference file I can delete?
Yes, the .plist with CharacterPalette in its name in Home/Library/Preferences

The character viewer no longer shows the complete unicode map, as it had in SnowLeopard. How do I get it back?

Just upgraded to Lion. The character viewer, which previously allowed one to see the entire unicode map for each font, no longer does this. It shows only certain kinds of symbols, not all of them. I am unhappy: I need to be able to access alternative letters and symbols, not just European vowels. Can someone help me?

Hi Sally,
I is still there, but a bit hidden.
1. Open the character viewer
2. Open the gear menu in the top left corner and select 'customize list...'
3. Go down to the bottom of the list 'Select categories...' and open 'Code Tables'.
4. Mark 'Unicode' for inclusion and click 'Done'.
Now open in the character viewer window the freshly added 'Unicode' category.
It is a bit cramped, but there it is: the old and trusted character viewer with all unicode categories and associated font variations.
good luck!
regards,
Twan

ERROR: Failed to retrieve character view of the report.

While trying to get HTML representation of report I am getting following error trying to get report from crystal reports web services XI R2 (Product: 11.5):
Source code to reproduce:
                    ViewSupport htmlViewSupport = new ViewSupport();
                    htmlViewSupport.setOutputFormat(OutputFormatType.HTML);
                    htmlViewSupport.setViewType(ViewType.CHARACTER);
                    htmlViewSupport.setViewMode(ViewModeType.REPORT);
                    RetrieveCharacterView retCharView = new RetrieveCharacterView();
                    retCharView.setViewSupport(htmlViewSupport);
                    retBOData = new RetrieveData();
                    retBOData.setRetrieveView(retCharView);
                    boDocInfo = oReportEngine.getDocumentInformation(documentCUID, null, null, null, retBOData);
                    XMLView oBinaryView = (XMLView) boDocInfo.getView();
                    docContents = ((String) oBinaryView.getContent()).getBytes();
in contrary this works ok (getting PDF):
                    RetrieveBinaryView oRetrieveBinaryView = new RetrieveBinaryView();
                    ViewSupport oViewSupport = new ViewSupport();
                    oViewSupport.setOutputFormat(OutputFormatType.PDF);
                    oViewSupport.setViewType(ViewType.BINARY);
                    oViewSupport.setViewMode(ViewModeType.DOCUMENT);
                    oRetrieveBinaryView.setViewSupport(oViewSupport);
                    oRetrieveData.setRetrieveView(oRetrieveBinaryView);
                    // retrieve binary data
                    boDocInfo = oReportEngine.getDocumentInformation(documentCUID, null, null, null, oRetrieveData);
                    documentCUID = boDocInfo.getDocumentReference();
                    BinaryView oBinaryView = (BinaryView) boDocInfo.getView();
                    docContents = oBinaryView.getContent();
Error:
Failed to retrieve character view of the report. (Error: WRE 02505)
AxisFault
faultCode: Server.generalException
faultSubcode:
faultString: Failed to retrieve character view of the report. (Error: WRE 02505)
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
     {reportengine.dsws.businessobjects.com}DSWSException:
     <ID>2505</ID>
     <Message>Failed to retrieve character view of the report. (Error: WRE 02505)</Message>
     <Operation>reportengine.dsws.businessobjects.com/getDocumentInformation</Operation>
     <CallStackTrace>com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.common.axis.WSExceptionFactory$InvalidViewSupport
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.reportengine.DocumentAgent.validateCharacterViewSupport(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.reportengine.DocumentAgent.handleGetCharacterView(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.reportengine.DocumentAgent.handleRetrieveData(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.reportengine.DocumentAgent.handleActions(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.reportengine.CrystalReportEngineSoapImpl.getDocumentInformation(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.reportengine.ReportEngineSoapImpl.getDocumentInformation(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.reportengine.ReportEngineSoapSkeleton.getDocumentInformation(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor88.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.java:402)
     at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:309)
     at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:333)
     at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:71)
     at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:150)
     at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:120)
     at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:481)
     at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:323)
     at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:854)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
     at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:339)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.common.axis.FlashFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
     at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
</CallStackTrace>
     <CauseException>com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.common.axis.WSExceptionFactory$InvalidViewSupport</CauseException>
     exceptionName: com.businessobjects.dsws.DSWSException
Failed to retrieve character view of the report. (Error: WRE 02505)
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
     at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.<init>(BeanDeserializer.java:125)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.<init>(BeanDeserializer.java:111)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.DSWSException.getDeserializer(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseDeserializerFactory.getSpecialized(BaseDeserializerFactory.java:176)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseDeserializerFactory.getDeserializerAs(BaseDeserializerFactory.java:117)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.getDeserializer(DeserializationContextImpl.java:466)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.getDeserializerForType(DeserializationContextImpl.java:481)
     at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultDetailsBuilder.onStartChild(SOAPFaultDetailsBuilder.java:172)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:963)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
     at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:242)
     at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538)
     at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:376)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2583)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2553)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2248)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2171)
     at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1691)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.reportengine.ReportEngineSoapStub.getDocumentInformation(Unknown Source)
     at com.businessobjects.dsws.reportengine.ReportEngine.getDocumentInformation(Unknown Source)
     at com.mobitel.reports.CrReportPdfGenerator.getPdf(CrReportPdfGenerator.java:289)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCUtil.invokeServiceClass(RPCUtil.java:194)
     at org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(RPCMessageReceiver.java:102)
     at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.java:40)
     at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:100)
     at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:176)
     at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostRequest(HTTPTransportUtils.java:275)
     at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:133)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
     at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)

I am not using HTML renderer but PDF renderer. See code below:
               String format = "pdf";
               RetrieveData oRetrieveData = null;
               oRetrieveData = new RetrieveData();
               if (format == "pdf") {
                    // Get a Document info object in character view format.
                    RetrieveBinaryView oRetrieveBinaryView = new RetrieveBinaryView();
                    ViewSupport oViewSupport = new ViewSupport();
                    oViewSupport.setOutputFormat(OutputFormatType.PDF);
                    oViewSupport.setViewType(ViewType.BINARY);
                    oViewSupport.setViewMode(ViewModeType.REPORT_PAGE);
                    oRetrieveBinaryView.setViewSupport(oViewSupport);
                    oRetrieveData.setRetrieveView(oRetrieveBinaryView);
                    // retrieve binary data
                    boDocInfo = oReportEngine.getDocumentInformation(documentCUID, null, null, null, oRetrieveData);
                    documentCUID = boDocInfo.getDocumentReference();
                    BinaryView oBinaryView = (BinaryView) boDocInfo.getView();
                    docContents = oBinaryView.getContent();
In the mean time I already figured out that I need to use ViewModeType.REPORT_PAGE as you sugested.
Problem we are having now is that PDF rendering takes at best 6 seconds on pageserver.exe to render report. But if we render it on CR Developer, it renders imediately.
Report is referencing stored procedure on oracle.

Cannot enable keyboard & character viewer

After a fresh install of 10.7.5, I cannot enable the keyboard & character viewer. Neither the checkbox will stay checked, nor does the option appear in the input sources menu...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Klaus

Thanks, Tom, for your speedy reply.
This is what the Terminal commands produced:
Last login: Sat May 11 21:33:45 on console
You have mail.
Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$ sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
Password:
Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$ sudo rm /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
rm: /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.IntlDataCache*: No such file or directory
Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$
No such file or directory
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Can't insert characters from Character Viewer

I have used Character Viewer in the past. The way it worked was to highlight the character in Character Viewer and then click the "insert" button. I can bring up Character Viewer and see all the characters, but even after highlighting a character, I cannot insert it into the document.
Anybody else have the same problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks!

makey wrote:
I would also like to download the 10.6 version of character into my mountain lion OSX 10.8.6. What is the best way to do it?
You need to have a machine with 10.6 on it, then find the CharacterPalette.app in System/Library/Input Methods, then move it to your mountain lion machine.

How do i use the character viewer

can anyone tell me the system in using the character viewer, i can drag and drop but surley there must be and easier way than that!
Thanks.

From Mac Help:
Enter special characters and symbols
Use the Character Viewer to enter special characters and symbols, such as mathematical symbols, letters with accent marks, emoticons, arrows and other “dingbats,” into your documents.
You can also use the Character Viewer to enter Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean characters, as well as characters from other languages.
Enter special characters or symbols from the Character Viewer
Open a document, and place the insertion point where you want the special character or symbol to appear.
Choose Edit > Special Characters to open the Character Viewer, or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).If you don’t see Show Character Viewer in the Input menu, follow the steps in this topic to show the Character Viewer in the menu bar.
Select a category from the list on the left, and then select the character you want to use.Use the Recently Used or Favorites sections in the Character Viewer to quickly enter frequently used characters or symbols.
Add a character or symbol to the Favorites section in the Character Viewer
Choose Edit > Special Characters to open the Character Viewer, or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).If you don’t see Show Character Viewer in the Input menu, follow the steps in this topic to show the Character Viewer in the menu bar.
Select a category from the list on the left, and then drag the character you want to the Favorites section.
Customize the Character Viewer
If you don’t see the character or symbol that you want to use, try customizing the Character Viewer.
Choose Customize List from the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) in the top-left corner of the Character Viewer.
Select the categories that you want to appear in the Character Viewer, and then click Done.
Show the Character Viewer in the menu bar
If the character doesn’t appear in your document, you may be using an app that doesn’t support that character. Try using a different character or inserting the character in a different app.
See the special characters or symbols you can enter using keyboard shortcuts
You can use the Keyboard Viewer to help you learn which keyboard shortcuts to use to enter special characters or symbols.
Turn on the Keyboard Viewer
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Language & Text, and then click Input Sources
Select the Keyboard & Character Viewer checkbox.
Make sure the checkbox next to each input source you want to use is selected and that “Show Input menu in menu bar” is selected.
See the special characters or symbols you can enter
Choose Show Keyboard Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).
Press any modifier key or combination of modifier keys to see the different special characters or symbols you can type.For example, hold down the Option key or the Option and Shift keys.
To place a special character or symbol that you see in the Keyboard Viewer in your document, press the modifier key or keys you pressed in step 2 and press the key on your keyboard that is in the same place as the special character or symbol you see in the Keyboard Viewer.
If you don’t see the special character or symbol you want to use, enter the special characte

Character Viewer fails to launch

Character Viewer never launches with the first click on the menu bar. It launches only with the second attempt but even then it takes more time than expected for such an app. Sometimes it also launches (always second click) on the background.
OS Bug?

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
My iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) displays a black screen during installation of Microsoft Windows 7 using the Boot Camp Assistant. How do I fix it?
The Windows 7 installer does not include required graphics or Bluetooth drivers for this computer. To obtain the necessary drivers and resolve the issue, see this article (creating the SD card and drivers for the "black screen" issue).
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173

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