Can't shortcut font into a group

[ocean_jasper]

I am trying to add fonts as SHORTCUTS rather than actually copying / moving them to a group. I successfully moved two fonts by right-clicking and selecting the appropriate options from the context menus.

However, the next fonts that I did in the exact same way never appeared in the HANDWRITTEN group at all. I tried multiple times with one font, and multiple times with another. In every case I didn't get an error message ... it appeared to process without a hitch, but never appeared in the new location. Refreshing the group list did not change the content.

Thanks in advance for your help here!
Elise

[Erwin Denissen]

I'm not able to reproduce this, so can you please give if detailed instructions that allow us to further investigate the issue? Also what version of MainType are you running?

[ocean_jasper]

I'm running MainType 3, the trial version. I plan to purchase it as soon as I can get the groups function to work correctly. I'm using it on an HP G70-460US Notebook PC, running Windows 7.

Here's what I'm doing:
1. Right-click the font I want to classify
2. Select ADD TO GROUP
3. Select HANDWRITTEN (the name of my group)
4. Select the radio button SHORTCUT
5. Select OKAY.

A screen flashes briefly appearing to process the request, and no error message appears; but the fonts do not appear in the HANDWRITTEN group. I also tried creating a new group, CAPITALS, with the same result.

It's the same result with multiple fonts, and is the same whether I add them to the group singly or several at a time.

Thanks!
Elise

[Erwin Denissen]

We've identified the problem; it is related to fonts that reside in the Windows fonts folder. We will release a new version that contains the bugfix soon.