Hello,
I'm using MainType 8.0 Professional and looking for a possibility to filter my fonts library based on characters set (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin, etc) in the View editor.
Could you help me with this?
How to filter Cyrillic fonts
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Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
MainType can only do this on an individual basis. Just provide the preview text with characters you require, and make sure you have set the special "Show preview with missing characters in red" option.
Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
Unfortunately, it doesn't work in such way as well. I've already set this option and type some Cyrillic text into the Sample box, fonts are marked red staying the same as with Latin sample text.
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Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
Erwin suggested a workaround. There's not an option to filter views to show only fonts with Cyrillic. In my screen shot, the fonts with Cyrillic glyphs are shown in Black, those without them in Red.
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Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
All fonts that miss specific characters from the preview text will be shown in red. You just need to type the preview text right above the font list:
Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
Thank you very much indeed!
I got the idea because of your screenshot, I have to type text in the font preview box instead of the sample window.
I got the idea because of your screenshot, I have to type text in the font preview box instead of the sample window.
Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
I am re-awakening this topic, since my workflow requires that | regroup my fonts in cyrillic vs latin vs any other language group enabled fonts. And I intend to upgrade to v11 Pro
Now the strategy with the red colour is somewhat even intuitive, however in no way productive in the selection and grouping process. I've inherited a big collection of FONTs and for a few years am trying to make proper grouping and still have way too many duplicates, broken fonts etc. Now the claim is that v11 deals better with broken fonts and identifying duplicates.
So that leaves me with the topic related question for v11:
- Can the differentiation of char. sets be made into groups, criteria, subset any easier?
Now the strategy with the red colour is somewhat even intuitive, however in no way productive in the selection and grouping process. I've inherited a big collection of FONTs and for a few years am trying to make proper grouping and still have way too many duplicates, broken fonts etc. Now the claim is that v11 deals better with broken fonts and identifying duplicates.
So that leaves me with the topic related question for v11:
- Can the differentiation of char. sets be made into groups, criteria, subset any easier?
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Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
No, it still requires you to manually inspect your fonts.
Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
Any hope of rectifying this? After all MainType is a FONT Manager and this would be a strong feature.Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:03 am No, it still requires you to manually inspect your fonts.
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Re: How to filter Cyrillic fonts
No, we don't have such plans for the near future.