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Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:43 am
by Enigma
Hello,

I just noticed that on my system there are some fonts that are installed (and loaded) in one font version and just loaded in another version. On the MainType 4 screenshot, you can see that there are TTF and OTF versions side by side:
MainType 4: Four files that are "installed and loaded" (green symbol) and "loaded through MainType and can be unloaded" (blue symbol) at the same time in different font versions.
MainType 4: Four files that are "installed and loaded" (green symbol) and "loaded through MainType and can be unloaded" (blue symbol) at the same time in different font versions.
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That's strange enough, but then I tried to export the OTF versions only, as I couldn't find the associated font files. What I got were four TTF files with the TTF versions of the fonts, see the MainType 3 screenshot:
MainType 3: I tried to export the four OTF fonts but got the TTF fonts (rightmost column: number of characters).
MainType 3: I tried to export the four OTF fonts but got the TTF fonts (rightmost column: number of characters).
maintype3-saved-fonts.gif (9.28 KiB) Viewed 7906 times
So now I have fonts inside my MainType 4 library that I can't export. Aren't my fonts as safe as I thought? At least it's not what I expected when I read statements like
Erwin Denissen wrote:We thought the risk of accidentally deleting a font and the complex way of making backups was not worth it to go that route. [...] Now you never have to worry about where your fonts are. Also if you accidentally remove a font, you can still export it from MainType to your file system.
(viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3585&p=15651#p15651) Is there anything I can do to export the OpenType versions of the fonts?

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:42 pm
by Enigma
It would be nice if some official from High-Logic could answer this in any way...

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:34 pm
by Erwin Denissen
I'll discuss this with Leon on Monday. Sorry for our lack of response. I somehow missed it.

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:01 pm
by Enigma
Erwin Denissen wrote:I'll discuss this with Leon on Monday. Sorry for our lack of response. I somehow missed it.
No problem. Thanks for your reply!

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:44 am
by Erwin Denissen
I send you a private message. Did you read it?

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:40 pm
by Enigma
Hello Erwin!
Erwin Denissen wrote:I send you a private message. Did you read it?
Yes, I read your E-Mail, thank you very much for your proposal, and sorry for the delay - I was really busy the last days because a customer of mine had a major problem with his online shop that had to be fixed ASAP.

I'll answer your mail in a few minutes.

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:20 pm
by Erwin Denissen
We have confirmed the issue, and are looking into this. Hopefully we will have a solution soon, so we can include it in the next upcoming release.

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:39 pm
by Erwin Denissen
We fixed the issue and will include it in the upcoming release. Expect it within a couple of weeks.

Re: Fonts installed *and* loaded (different versions)?

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:51 pm
by Enigma
Erwin Denissen wrote:We fixed the issue and will include it in the upcoming release. Expect it within a couple of weeks.
Great, thank you very much for fixing this! I'm looking forward to the release of the fix. :)

Cheers,
Jan