There are some fonts I bought on CD-ROM, which I would like to keep as my file system as ISO images only. On windows, these ISO files can be mounted by a double click, but become a new ”drive“ with a dynamically assigned letter, e.g., _E:_.
Of course, MainType lets me index the fonts once I mount the ISO image and even more caches lots of information, but since the font folder is tied to the actual mount ”drive“ instead of something that works irrespective of the actual mount drive, I am lost without remounting the archive under the same letter again.
I would love MainType to store information about the archive or even index in-archive files without mounting or unpacking them. Useful file formats would be ISO and ZIP, but also VMDK and TAR.GZ files might come in handy.
Thank you, @Erwin Denissen, this is certainly helpful.
It would be amazing if I could add a more speaking name instead of _e:_, _f:_, and so on.
Allow me a few more questions:
When I unmount the drive, I can install, load, and print the font, but cannot locate its original path relative to the image/archive origin as “open containing folder” does not work until I know what to re-mount - right?
It occurs to me I removed a group in the Groups view and it still appears in the Font Folders view - can that be? Can I re-add it? Then after adding folders in the Font Folders view, groups get added twice to the Groups view - when and why do these both views get out of sync?
What does the “User Access” option do? It seems rather undocumented.
