How do you key in a prime or double primes in Adobe illustrator in a textbox? I am using Wins7 system.
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Windows or Mac? In Windows you can use this, or use this if you know what the hex code is, but I don't know anything about Macs, I'm afraid. – Paul Jan 14 '16 at 8:38
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4The same way you’d do it anywhere else. Did you try anything out before asking here? What did you try? What did Googling tell you? Why did none of that work? – Janus Bahs Jacquet Jan 14 '16 at 12:11
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Regardless of any operating system, Illustrator is equipped with a "Glyphs" panel. With the textbox in edit mode, open the glyphs panel, locate the appropriate prime mark you require (double prime is usually at the beginning of the list, and prime is located after the letters) and double click on it. I use this method on a daily basis.
I just hoped that Adobe would have followed the same method as that used in InDesign – it has a shortcut.
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It's those tiny differences between AI and InD that really grind my gears. For some reason (interoffice animosity? separate software review groups? bad communication?) the Glyphs panel in InD is superior over AI's in many (small) ways, even though there is clearly some shared code base... – Jongware Jan 27 '16 at 20:48
In Windows 7, as Paul suggested, use the Character Map to insert special characters into documents and text fields.
- Open the
Start Menu - Type
Character Mapand hit return. - Select the appropriate typeface in the
Character Mapapplication. - Find the special character you want
- Click
Selectand thenCopy - Paste in your field or document.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/using-special-characters-character-map-faq#1TC=windows-7
In OSX, with a valid text input field selected, you can launch the character viewer by pressing Control + Command+ Space bar or by selecting Emoji & Symbols from the Edit menu.
With that dialog opened, a search for Prime will display single, double, triple and quadruple prime symbols that you can click to insert.
