Font Forum

Dave Crosby wrote:That is why the fonts I use are in folders and files so I can find the one I want.

Does it really matter if you use folders and files (file names) or font groups and fonts (font names)?

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Jan

That would be disastrous! Well, no, it wouldn't. There could easily be several options for searching different kinds of duplicates so that everybody gets what he wants. And "similars" can be very different and useful. I have many fonts in version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 and so on. I reall...

Since MainType 4 doesn't handle folders but only fonts, there will only be one database entry (if they are "real" duplicates). If the fonts differ in any way (e. g. the version number), there will be as many entries as you have different versions of the font. The folders themselves will be...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Maybe one day this description field will be useful, but for now it's empty for all fonts, and not needed yet.

Well - you can enter your own descriptions here. Just right-click on a group, choose "Edit Group" and enter any description you like.

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Jan

Is there a way to back-reference these copied files to the original files in my main font folder (to which the shortcuts reference)? Otherwise I'd have again several folders containing the same files - exactly the thing I want to avoid with a font manager... Well, using MainType 4, you don't have t...

Erwin Denissen wrote:

ToMo wrote:I guess you mean "there is no way to make MainType 4..."

Yes, that is correct; I've fixed it in the OP.

No, you didn't...

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Jan

Erwin Denissen wrote:We'll probably add items to the context menus with the next upcoming release.

Good to hear, thank you very much!

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Jan

Erwin Denissen wrote:Do let us know if this happens again, as we are not able to reproduce this problem, but want to fix it.

Unfortunately I don't have much time to care for my fonts at the moment, but I'll have an eye on it.

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Jan

Erwin Denissen wrote:This should be fixed by now.

Looks alright now, thanks for fixing this so quickly!

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Jan

With the latest version (get it through the built-in update feature, or download MainType from our download page) you can now copy and paste fonts to groups. Fine! It would be even better if there were context menu entries for copying and pasting - always using the Edit menu isn't optimal, and sinc...

After that we might add another feature to remove similars. That would be great - I don't need five different versions of a font, and if you have more than a few hundred fonts, it's quite tedious to find duplicates by scrolling though the list of fonts. For me it would be enough to check the names ...

artemis wrote:For what it's worth, I've noticed that the wonky tooltips all change to the text of whichever button I mouse over first, after opening the application.

Yes, the text isn't always the same; I've noticed that, too.

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Jan

At the moment you can't do much with this information. Invalid resources are fonts that do not comply with the TTF/OTF/Type-1 standards and they do not show up in MainType. Duplicate resources are 2 binary identical files of which you will only see 1 in MainType. Okay, thanks for explaining this. A...

MainType gives you 2 dialogs before deleting a font so that should already make you think twice before actually removing a font. Okay, I didn't try it, so I never saw these dialogs. It was more of a theoretical thought. Nevertheless it should be possible to change one's mind after a year or so... :...

León Fridsma wrote:Yes only the font you selected will be deleted.

Thanks for the information!

León Fridsma wrote:Only exception are TrueType collections, if you delete one font of a collection, the other fonts are deleted aswell.

That goes without saying.

Cheers,
Jan