MainType and Windows 7

[tobiaspete]

I am new to MainType, and am trying out the trial version of the software and looking to buy it soon. It looks like it meets my needs quite well. It's difficult to find good font management progams on Windows. I had been using an old version of Suitcase, but Extensis has let it languish too long. So I am trying out MainType and I like it very much so far.

I have encountered one problem. I have installed it within my new Windows 7 (RTM) installation and MainType works really well within it. The problem I am coming up against is...every few days a couple of my fonts get corrupt and no longer appear within Windows once I "Install" from MainType. Maintype installs and displays these fonts correctly, but the Windows system will not and they don't show up in any selection menus. The fonts that get corrupted seem to be the same fonts time after time (Malbeck, Alexa, Helvetica, and Bickham Script), so I am not sure if the problem is Windows 7, the fonts themselves, or MainType. The fonts work for a while, and once I delete and re-add them from the original file, they work again. Sometimes it's even enough to send the files to the Recycle Bin, then manually drag them back onto my desktop and re-add to MainType.

One step I am attempting in the meanwhile, to isolate the problem, is to manually install them to the Windows 7 system, outside of MainType and see if the corruption persists. But I thought I would probe it here too. If I have to do workarounds, or if Windows 7 might not be fully supported, I may hold off on my purchase.

Thanks for any help you can give, I am very pleased with your software otherwise!

[Erwin Denissen]

Are those fonts OpenType fonts?