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I can't seem to find anywhere that show that total number of installed fonts. It shows active fonts, but that includes installed and loaded.

Is there something I'm missing?

Dave

In MainType 2.1, when a font is uninstalled, it is automatically moved to the uninstalled fonts folder. I would have assumed that its original location would be tracked - and that if were reinstalled it would be placed back in the original folder - but that does not happen. It doesn't make sense to ...

I work with foreign fonts and have them in a separate folder so they don't get overwritten when new programs install their fonts. One of the most useful aspects of BitStream Font Manager is that it searches your drive for all fonts, then displays all duplicate fonts in groups. Then you can uninstall...

If I copy a composite glyph character and paste it into another location to modify, this causes it to become a single glyph font. This difference leaves different right-click menu options for working with the character. I have tried it several times and it seems to be consistent. Why doesn't it past...

Hi Erwin, Bitstream has a better implementation than FontExpert. It finds fonts with duplicate font names or duplicate file names, lists them grouped together with an empty line between groups. Since I work with Hungarian which has some accents that no other language has, I need to uninstall the fon...

Am I missing something or is this feature not available in Main Type.

Font Expert and Bitstream Font Manager both have it - and it is much needed.

Thanks.