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I am wondering what is the meaning of the glyphs that are displayed from the Wingdings font when 2, 3 and 4 are keyed.

They seem to be respectively (2) a sheet of paper with text with the upper right corner turned down, (3) a sheet of paper with text, (4) several sheets of paper.

They are displayed in the upper row of the graphic.

The turned-down corner seems to have some meaning as it is used in some glyphs in the Webdings font as well, as displayed in the middle row of the graphic.

As a side note, Webdings also contains the glyph displayed in the lower row of the graphic.
Does anyone know what is the meaning of the turned-down corner please?

William Overington

13 December 2008

Check the PostScript Names of each of these glyphs. Classic use of the PS Name field on Symbol fonts. They indicate what the designers thought the dings were illustrating.

Does anyone know what is the meaning of the turned-down corner please?

I suppose the turned down corner refers to the barbaric (shudder!!!!!!) practice of marking a page in a book in that manner for future easy reference.

Ergo, the file has some special meaning for some benighted near brain dead troglodyte.

Dick Pape wrote:Check the PostScript Names of each of these glyphs. Classic use of the PS Name field on Symbol fonts. They indicate what the designers thought the dings were illustrating.

Thanks Dick.

Here is the list of PostScript Names for the seven glyphs.

filetalltext1
filetalltext
filetalltext3
textdoc
textgraphicdoc
graphicdoc
art

William Overington

15 December 2008

Thanks Dave.

I have since remembered that PowerPoint 97 has an AutoShape with a similar effect. It is one of the Basic Shapes collection. The display has more of a 3d effect, as if the breeze has caught the corner of the document: however, the tooltip message of the AutoShape is Folded Corner. I have made the attached png by saving a design from PowerPoint 97 as a png and then trimming off white space from the right edge and from the lower edge using Paint.
William Overington

15 December 2008