Font Forum

Hello all! Pardon me for so many questions in a row, (I am new here, and I did glance through the forums first) but I believe in a Forum questions should be posted singularly so that the subject remains singular. If I have a font oh, say, on the desktop or some other folder, and I install that font ...

Hello all!

I am new to MainType (I like it ALOT). What actually happens to my font when I move, or copy a font into a Group? I think I understand when I make a shortcut of it. Can I get multiple copies of the font onto my system this way?

Thanks!

Brother Gabriel-Marie

Hello all! I have tried this a couple of times now. When I explore the fonts folder on the C drive (either from explorer OR from MainType's prompt) Maintype consumes 100% of my CPU and freezes. Task Manager will free it after a minute or so. Why does this cause a crash? Thanks Brother Gabriel-Marie

Hello all! Sometimes when I view the fontlist within Maintype a particular font (like Terminal, or occasionally some non-system font) appears multiple times. If I delete one instance all the instances become deleted with it. "Terminal" appears about 25 times. Why does this happen? (To keep...

An addendum to my last post on this problem: myFont won't appear in inkscape either! I don't know why. Can anybody help me?

Thanks for answering... I tried rebooting several times. I have found that Word is definitely replacing the font. When I go into the options panel where Font Substitution is listed, I can see in the list that myFont is being substituted to Times. But it allows me to substitute myFont for myFont - I ...

Hello all! I have created a symbol font and mapped the glyphs to the regular abcs. The font works fine in FC. It displays fine in the font listing in Word, but when I select the font, Word seems to replace it with times. I can select my new font from the list but can't get it to display. Now, it use...