Is there a way to drag and drop a single or a small group of selected fonts into MainType like you can do in FontCreator?
Is there a command line method for doing this?
Is there a way to start MT without loading Active?
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You can drag and drop selected fonts from Windows Explorer to a group, or hold down shift to move them. However, why not do it within MainType? Maximize the Font Panel to make it easier.
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XCopy *.ttf … to move a whole load of fonts at once. Type xcopy /? to get the command line options.
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Not as far as I know. Uninstall most of your fonts to make startup faster. I got mine down to 215 fonts and MainType starts in < 5 seconds. I don’t use even half of those fonts — most are system fonts. One reason to use MainType is so that you don’t need to keep a lot of fonts installed, but it is very quick to find and install fonts when you need them if they’re organised into neat groups.
Is there a way to start MT without loading Active?
When MT first starts up click on the Browse or Groups Tab.
Select a sub folder and only that folder will open.
Thank you for your ideas.
The feature of showing several fonts’ information in a single line display isn’t available in FC.
What I’m trying to do is use the features of MainType as if it was a font viewer. Everything in a font would be displayed but the overhead of getting there is too much for a single or small group of fonts.
I should probably add this as an Enhancement topic though likely a “trick”, such as some switch, flag or link on startup, would work just as well.
I think the most useful would be an option to resume from last time — i.e. viewing either a folder in the browse pane, a group in the group pane, or the Active fonts pane.
If you want MainType to start fast, you would then only need to remember to close it when viewing a small group or folder without include subfolders enabled.