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I've just downloaded a new font from the web, and installed it into the Font Book application, where I can find it under all fonts.
Specifially, "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Font" is the one I'm referring to. I want to use it when editing a PDF with the preview application, but it doesn't show up there. Have I just missed a step? How do I use a font from font book in preview?
Snow Leopard's CharacterPalette.app still works on 10.7:
Those "iOS symbols" shown in the screenshot above are glyph variants that are specific to Apple Symbols. For example the turned arrow icon is a variant of Ꮿ. There doesn't seem to be any way to show them in 10.7's Character Viewer.
You could also use Font Book to save a PDF file for all characters in a font:
In the case of iA Writer, they licensed a commercial font called Nitti Light for use in their application and their application only. That's why you cannot copy it into FontBook and use it elsewhere. Try Cousine from Google Fonts for a free font that is quite similar.
Best Answer
There may be a bug in some versions of Preview so that some third-party fonts do not appear in the Annotations font selection control.
Preview missing lots of fonts that are shown in font book
Also, note that amateur fonts which may not have been created to professional standards have traditionally been responsible for a variety of problems.
The books of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" use Coop Forged as their typeface. https://houseind.com/hi/typography_of_coop