Groups > XML output
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:42 am
I've just found MainType. God Almighty! Where have you been so far! I've tried almost all font managers on the market today. Every one of them had a problem, or it was missing a key feature, or it was clumsy, or it was full of bugs or the interface was horrible.
I've been playing with MainType for about 30 or so minutes and I said THIS IS IT! Finally! The REAL thing. I'm very excited to discover this new proggy. So far it looks very promising! Has many features, nice and clean, easy to use interface.
So first, I'd like to repeat the request from one of the users, that in the Groups section, instead of moving or copying a font, let it create a shortcut to already existing font(s). Or at least have the option to add a font to a group as a shortcut instead of moving or copying it.
When I work on a project, I like to create a group for the fonts I use on that project. This way I don't have to make numerous duplicate copies of a font, just simply create a new Group that use shortcuts to the actual used fonts. If I decide to delete the project I can just delete the Group without worrying that an actual font might be deleted. This way only the shortcut(s) would be deleted and the original font(s) will still be intact.
Now back to the original title of my post. I was wondering that at a future release would it be possible to add a feature that would export or save the list of groups (or just selected groups) to either an XML file or whatever file (text, binary, etc). Reason for this, is that if I have a long list of groups (I love groups), then I don't have to scroll through a huge list of them. I could just save out whichever ones I don't use. I could save this along with the project I'm working on. Then later, if I need to work on the project again, I could just load the group(s) back. And since the groups would (ideally) contain shortcuts or references to existing fonts, the output file would be small. This way I could save group(s) information along with my project as opposed to saving the actual fonts with it. Am I making sense...?
--LES
I've been playing with MainType for about 30 or so minutes and I said THIS IS IT! Finally! The REAL thing. I'm very excited to discover this new proggy. So far it looks very promising! Has many features, nice and clean, easy to use interface.
So first, I'd like to repeat the request from one of the users, that in the Groups section, instead of moving or copying a font, let it create a shortcut to already existing font(s). Or at least have the option to add a font to a group as a shortcut instead of moving or copying it.
When I work on a project, I like to create a group for the fonts I use on that project. This way I don't have to make numerous duplicate copies of a font, just simply create a new Group that use shortcuts to the actual used fonts. If I decide to delete the project I can just delete the Group without worrying that an actual font might be deleted. This way only the shortcut(s) would be deleted and the original font(s) will still be intact.
Now back to the original title of my post. I was wondering that at a future release would it be possible to add a feature that would export or save the list of groups (or just selected groups) to either an XML file or whatever file (text, binary, etc). Reason for this, is that if I have a long list of groups (I love groups), then I don't have to scroll through a huge list of them. I could just save out whichever ones I don't use. I could save this along with the project I'm working on. Then later, if I need to work on the project again, I could just load the group(s) back. And since the groups would (ideally) contain shortcuts or references to existing fonts, the output file would be small. This way I could save group(s) information along with my project as opposed to saving the actual fonts with it. Am I making sense...?
--LES