Hello,
I’m using MainType 8.0 Professional and looking for a possibility to filter my fonts library based on characters set (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin, etc) in the View editor.
Could you help me with this?
MainType can only do this on an individual basis. Just provide the preview text with characters you require, and make sure you have set the special “Show preview with missing characters in red” option.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in such way as well. I’ve already set this option and type some Cyrillic text into the Sample box, fonts are marked red staying the same as with Latin sample text.
Erwin suggested a workaround. There’s not an option to filter views to show only fonts with Cyrillic. In my screen shot, the fonts with Cyrillic glyphs are shown in Black, those without them in Red.
All fonts that miss specific characters from the preview text will be shown in red. You just need to type the preview text right above the font list:
Thank you very much indeed!
I got the idea because of your screenshot, I have to type text in the font preview box instead of the sample window.
I am re-awakening this topic, since my workflow requires that | regroup my fonts in cyrillic vs latin vs any other language group enabled fonts. And I intend to upgrade to v11 Pro
Now the strategy with the red colour is somewhat even intuitive, however in no way productive in the selection and grouping process. I’ve inherited a big collection of FONTs and for a few years am trying to make proper grouping and still have way too many duplicates, broken fonts etc. Now the claim is that v11 deals better with broken fonts and identifying duplicates.
So that leaves me with the topic related question for v11:
- Can the differentiation of char. sets be made into groups, criteria, subset any easier?
No, it still requires you to manually inspect your fonts.
Any hope of rectifying this? After all MainType is a FONT Manager and this would be a strong feature.
No, we don’t have such plans for the near future.