Arrow fonts?

[Terry Pinnell]

Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Tom Ferguson]

Off the top of my head, Wingdings,Wingdings 3, and many standard fonts
include the 8.

Check the Insert Symbol dialog.

Tom Ferguson

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Terry Pinnell]

Post by Tom Ferguson
Off the top of my head, Wingdings,Wingdings 3, and many standard fonts
include the 8.
Check the Insert Symbol dialog.
Tom Ferguson

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks. Wingdings and Wingdings 2 don't have them but Wingdings 3
does, and is the only one I've found so far.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Wingdings 3 is nothing BUT arrows, including diagonals. But if you're
working on top of a map, it's actually easier to use Word's drawing tools to
draw arrows than to insert a text box on top of the map. And of course the
drawn arrows can be rotated to any angle.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Terry Pinnell]

Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
Wingdings 3 is nothing BUT arrows, including diagonals. But if you're
working on top of a map, it's actually easier to use Word's drawing tools to
draw arrows than to insert a text box on top of the map. And of course the
drawn arrows can be rotated to any angle.

Thanks, Wingdings 3 (characters 33-40) look good.

I'm using an image editor (PaintShop Pro 8), not Word. So rotation of
a single arrow, although indeed the most versatile approach, means
pasting in a new transparent image. It's not a major problem, but not
as easy as using the text tool!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Since you posted in a Word NG, I assumed you were working in Word.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Post by Terry Pinnell

Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
Wingdings 3 is nothing BUT arrows, including diagonals. But if you're
working on top of a map, it's actually easier to use Word's drawing tools to
draw arrows than to insert a text box on top of the map. And of course the
drawn arrows can be rotated to any angle.

Thanks, Wingdings 3 (characters 33-40) look good.
I'm using an image editor (PaintShop Pro 8), not Word. So rotation of
a single arrow, although indeed the most versatile approach, means
pasting in a new transparent image. It's not a major problem, but not
as easy as using the text tool!
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Karl E. Peterson]

Post by Terry Pinnell
I'm using an image editor (PaintShop Pro 8), not Word. So rotation of
a single arrow, although indeed the most versatile approach, means
pasting in a new transparent image. It's not a major problem, but not
as easy as using the text tool!

Ummm, are you familiar with the "Preset Shape Tool" in PSP8?

[Peter T. Daniels]

There's a Unicode range called Arrows (2190-21FF) that has character-
size arrows in considerable variety. The only font that comes with
Vista and/or Office2007 that has all 112 of them is Cambria Math, but
Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode have most of them.

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Terry Pinnell]

Post by Peter T. Daniels
There's a Unicode range called Arrows (2190-21FF) that has character-
size arrows in considerable variety. The only font that comes with
Vista and/or Office2007 that has all 112 of them is Cambria Math, but
Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode have most of them.

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks. I have Arrows2 (ARROWS2.TTF) but it doesn't have the 8 in the
same style. (And oddly, most are duplicates of a north-pointing arrow,
in a style that would be OK if the other 7 were provided.)

Not sure if it's the one you mean, but I have Arial Unicode MS
(ARIALUNI.TTF) which doesn't have any arrows.

Nor can I find any arrows in Lucida Sans Unicode (l_10646.TTF)

I'm using XP Pro BTW.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Peter T. Daniels]

Post by Terry Pinnell

Post by Peter T. Daniels
There's a Unicode range called Arrows (2190-21FF) that has character-
size arrows in considerable variety. The only font that comes with
Vista and/or Office2007 that has all 112 of them is Cambria Math, but
Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode have most of them.

Post by Terry Pinnell
Anyone know of a font that includes a set of ARROWS, covering at least
the 8 points of the compass and ideally more. I work with paths on
maps, and add an arrow alongside at various points to indicate walking
direction. Adding these as text rather than making and adding small
graphic bitmaps would be very useful.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks. I have Arrows2 (ARROWS2.TTF) but it doesn't have the 8 in the
same style. (And oddly, most are duplicates of a north-pointing arrow,
in a style that would be OK if the other 7 were provided.)
Not sure if it's the one you mean, but I have Arial Unicode MS
(ARIALUNI.TTF) which doesn't have any arrows.
Nor can I find any arrows in Lucida Sans Unicode (l_10646.TTF)
I'm using XP Pro BTW.

Then maybe the Arrows range is new since Unicode 2.0, which seems to
be the latest version accommodated by XP. There's a brilliant utility
called BabelMap that instantly shows you which of the fonts you have
contain which of the characters in each Unicode range.

[Karl E. Peterson]

Post by Terry Pinnell

Post by Peter T. Daniels
There's a Unicode range called Arrows (2190-21FF) that has character-
size arrows in considerable variety. The only font that comes with
Vista and/or Office2007 that has all 112 of them is Cambria Math, but
Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode have most of them.

Not sure if it's the one you mean, but I have Arial Unicode MS
(ARIALUNI.TTF) which doesn't have any arrows.

Start - Run - Charmap<enter>

Select "Arial Unicode MS" in the dropdown.

Scroll the character display down until you see numbers in the &h2000-&h2200 range
in the status area.

OR:

Start - Run - Charmap<enter>

Select "Arial Unicode MS" in the dropdown.

Select "Advanced View"

Group by: "Unicode Subrange"

Select "Arrows" in the popup "Group By" dialog.