Foot/inch marks in Illustrator?

[jdc]

has me stumped for some reason

i cant seem to make them...

anyone?

[Seacrest]

Have you tried dragging them from FontBook?

[jdc]

[quote Seacrest]Have you tried dragging them from FontBook?
Fontbook has zero fonts in it...but thanks tor the suggestion

[steve...]

Make two marks and do a blend with specified steps? Then scale the group to whatever size you like?

[Seacrest]

1. Put a font in FontBook -- any font (one with Unicode support)
2. Go to the Special Characters palette and choose "Punctuation."
3. Choose the symbol you need and drag into Illus.
4. Change the font to the actual font you want to use.

4a. If the glyph does not exist in the font, then it probably won't show up.
4b. IIRC, those symbols exist in the Symbol font, but I do not remember the key combo.

[kahuna1342]

Could always try the Glyphs palette.

[berger]

CS2

In your open file; Choose File > Document Setup, and choose Type from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog box. Deselect Use Typographer's Quotes.

The next time you type, it'll be in straight inch and foot style. Any other quotes already typed will stay as 'curly quotes'.

It's a pain, but it works.

[jdc]

berger -- sigh, that is a pain.

and i will give that a try Seacrest

and kahuna -- i totally forgot about the glyphs pallet -- bingo -- big thanks =)

[berger]

If I'm working with a lot of inch and foot marks, I do the doc setup/type/deselect typographer quotes routine, then if I need curly quotes I use the Option and Option/Shift keys with the left and right bracket keys. Same thing in Quark.

If you ever change fonts universally, the hard coding keeps the formatting intact.

[jdc]

[quote berger]If I'm working with a lot of inch and foot marks, I do the doc setup/type/deselect typographer quotes routine, then if I need curly quotes I use the Option and Option/Shift keys with the left and right bracket keys. Same thing in Quark.

If you ever change fonts universally, the hard coding keeps the formatting intact.
well that works in Quark (which i already know =), and, fwiw, its control + " to get foot or inch marks, not option (but im sure you know that too =)