Library / Folder Search features/font operations

MainType - Font Manager MainType - Requests and Enhancements
1

Two feature related to search:

  1. It would be nice to be able to limit the search (i.e. by font name) to the current folder, instead of searching library-wide only.

  2. It would be nice to be able to cut / paste fonts from the search results. Compared to cutting/pasting a large list of fonts from a proper folder, in this case they might have different paths and some might have no resource file (they might be just in the vault) - so I do realise this might be complex. However it would be very useful and not impossible to do. Currently the same can be done by first tagging the fonts in the search results, then displaying the fonts with that tag (using search tag), then copy/paste in the desired target folder, then go back to displaying the tagged fonts and remove the tag.

2

  1. Yes, adding some kind of Filter for the current view would be nice.

  2. The update we released yesterday should work as you describe.

3

Thank you.
Regarding point 2, it is possible to copy from the search result, but not cut/paste. This unfortunately leads to duplicates (which can then be removed only externally using a duplicate file finder). Also after the copy/paste operation, it is not possible to remove the initial/source file from the search results as the only option is to delete the file from all known locatins and library, thus deleting both the original and the copy.

4

You can not delete from a search result, as the returned results are is a temporary View and for views the source is irrelevant.

5

Thank you. Then, in this case, cut/past cannot work -in fact- from the Search results view, because “cut” implies deleting the original file.