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Jan
At the moment you can't do much with this information. Invalid resources are fonts that do not comply with the TTF/OTF/Type-1 standards and they do not show up in MainType. Duplicate resources are 2 binary identical files of which you will only see 1 in MainType. A way remove duplicate resources will be added in a later version.Enigma wrote:When importing fonts, a list is shown that tells me how many duplicate and invalid resources have been encountered. What can I do with this information? MainType 4 doesn't let me search for duplicates or invalid fonts... I have several thousand fonts, should I check them one by one?![]()
Cheers,
Jan
Okay, thanks for explaining this.León Fridsma wrote:At the moment you can't do much with this information. Invalid resources are fonts that do not comply with the TTF/OTF/Type-1 standards and they do not show up in MainType. Duplicate resources are 2 binary identical files of which you will only see 1 in MainType.
Fine. Does this include a way to show those fonts that are stored in the database/vault in several different versions (I mean version numbers)? Or did you mean just that?León Fridsma wrote:A way remove duplicate resources will be added in a later version.
We are not sure yet, but we will most likely first add support for removing true duplicates (exact binary copies of the same font files). After that we might add another feature to remove similars.Enigma wrote:Fine. Does this include a way to show those fonts that are stored in the database/vault in several different versions (I mean version numbers)? Or did you mean just that?
That would be great - I don't need five different versions of a font, and if you have more than a few hundred fonts, it's quite tedious to find duplicates by scrolling though the list of fonts.Erwin Denissen wrote:After that we might add another feature to remove similars.
That would be disastrous! Lots of names have been re-used by very different fonts. Take Alien for example!Enigma wrote:"For me it would be enough to check the names"Erwin Denissen wrote:After that we might add another feature to remove similars.
Cheers,
Jan
Well, no, it wouldn't. There could easily be several options for searching different kinds of duplicates so that everybody gets what he wants.Dave Crosby wrote:That would be disastrous!
I have many fonts in version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 and so on. I really don't need the old versions - they mostly only contain less characters, that's all. And I'd like to get rid of them.Dave Crosby wrote:And "similars" can be very different and useful.
Wasn't there a bigger font size?Dave Crosby wrote:Exact dups that have been renamed are the major problem.
Well, you didn't offend me, I just expressed a meaning that (slightly) differs from yours.Dave Crosby wrote:Sorry to have offended you Jan, but it got your attention, didn't it.
I didn't say that what you mentioned doesn't make sense. It does. But why do you demand a duplicate search function that only matches your needs and ask High-Logic to dismiss my request? As I said, both features can easily coexist.Dave Crosby wrote:Saving different fonts with the same name to the same folder has wiped out several of my favorite fonts and it took months to relocate the originals.
"Similar" means different things to different people. See Panose your Fonts. You will find LOTS of attention catchers there.