Font Forum

I just purchased and installed the new (MainType 8.0) version. Unfortunately things didn't improve regarding this issue with folder refreshing (quite the contrary). Whenever I want to add a font to my 120k fonts library I have to wait about 30 minutes for MainType to finish it's refresh process of t...

Being able to have several samples displayed at once with their own setting for: size, margins, line-height, colors,... would be better.

That way we would be able to evaluate the quality of a font for several usages (body text, titles,...) at once.

Here's a screenshot of how I like maintype layout

yes, that would already be a welcome improvement.
I suppose matching the same character would be a step further (not knowing if that's even possible)

whenever I select a font the selected glyph in the Characters pane (and consequently in the Zoom pane) is reset to the first entry 0x00. (which is almost always empty)
It would be so much better if (like in the character mode) the glyph selection would be maintained between fonts

I'm having the exact same issue.

Erwin Denissen wrote:It is a common Windows control that has little customization.

Ok, would some kind of margin be part of the little parameters it offers, and if yes, would you consider adding some default margin to it ?

right now this is hurting me plenty...

I find the sample pane to do a poor job at providing a realistic paragraph/block of text preview and I'm having a very hard time to evaluate the quality of a font for a block of text usage with it. Here are 2 suggestion that would make a great difference: Allow us to specify margin/padding for the p...

Thanks a lot for the prompt answers.

I think you should organise your font collection so that MainType only has to refresh those folders that are likely to change. My font library is tightly organized, it consist of OTF files only, structured like so: + FONT LIBRARY | + FoundryName | | + FamilyName | | | FontName-bold.otf | | | FontNa...

ok, but isn't there room for improvement here ?
most library manager (be it music or pictures) even when dealing with large libraries don't impose a 7 minutes delay every time you import new items.

My main font library is quite large (around 100k fonts) it's added via a single "keep in sync" folder set to manual refresh mode. whenever I refresh the whole folder via CTRL-R or individual subfolders via either the button "synchronize the selected font folder" in the group pane or the contextual m...

Thanks for the answer.
I managed to extract the font folder from the windows backup.
Lesson learned. entering grouping tagging mode

I recently did a clean windows install, before that I did a maintype db backup. My problem is: I had a large amount of fonts installed i my previous windows install.(yes I was lazy and that was the way I "bookmarked" fonts from my main library) I was hoping to somehow get hold of that selection of i...

You can also recreate the groups structure after refreshing the font folder. creategroups.png Note: it will not replace your current groups, so in this case it is probably best to delete the former groups. It really didn't occur to me that I could right click the items in that list. I assume that t...