Some MTPro V8.0.0.1124 64Bit questions--Glyphs and "Library"
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:29 pm
Hi:
I've been a MT Pro user for a few years now, and just upgraded to 8. (I run multiple font managers, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I can't seem to find ONE that gives me everything I want. The others are SuitcaseFusion and Typograf, and one that I think I've actually forgotten, now. I'm rather attached to Typograf's font information, that you can't get with either SF or with MT, e.g., font size information, etc., which is critical when working on eBooks.)
Perhaps I'm misremembering this, but in the new manual for 8, p. 22, it says to display all glyphs, "click the left "G" button on the Toolbar." Hunh? What "left G" button on the toolbar? Didn't this used to be a menu option, or am I thinking of FS? And, regardless, where is the mystical "left G" button, please?
Second stupid question: I've tried the Tutorials, the manual, etc, and maybe I missed it, but how, exactly, is the Library created and calculated? The manual states, in the "Predefined Views," (p. 11) that the Library "Entire list of all fonts in your library," which is hardly helpful. Is "the Library" the sum of your Groups? (That seems to certainly NOT be it.) How can I see exactly which folders, either virtual or real (so to speak) comprise the Library? I have more fonts than are displayed, numbers-wise, and I do not see fonts, in my Library, that I know are in my master fonts folder. Thus, it does not seem to be the sum total of my master font collection folder (which is in a Dropbox.)
I want to know because I would like to create a group, of some kind--still thinking about this--that does contain all the fonts in my master font collection, even the dopey ones that you end up with from bundles, where people used some stupid app to make their scribbles into a so-called "font." (oops, sorry, but...you know how it is.) I don't want to do that if it will just duplicate the 4K+ that are in the Library now. Whatever the "Library" is, or from whichever it is constituted.
Can anyone tell me? How does the Library get calculated? Also, opinions please for best practices: now that I have a fairly massive collection of fonts, in that dropbox folder, would it be better/smarter to use a synched folder? Recursively indexed? Or "just" a Group? For the "all" folder, that is?
Thanks much.
I've been a MT Pro user for a few years now, and just upgraded to 8. (I run multiple font managers, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I can't seem to find ONE that gives me everything I want. The others are SuitcaseFusion and Typograf, and one that I think I've actually forgotten, now. I'm rather attached to Typograf's font information, that you can't get with either SF or with MT, e.g., font size information, etc., which is critical when working on eBooks.)
Perhaps I'm misremembering this, but in the new manual for 8, p. 22, it says to display all glyphs, "click the left "G" button on the Toolbar." Hunh? What "left G" button on the toolbar? Didn't this used to be a menu option, or am I thinking of FS? And, regardless, where is the mystical "left G" button, please?
Second stupid question: I've tried the Tutorials, the manual, etc, and maybe I missed it, but how, exactly, is the Library created and calculated? The manual states, in the "Predefined Views," (p. 11) that the Library "Entire list of all fonts in your library," which is hardly helpful. Is "the Library" the sum of your Groups? (That seems to certainly NOT be it.) How can I see exactly which folders, either virtual or real (so to speak) comprise the Library? I have more fonts than are displayed, numbers-wise, and I do not see fonts, in my Library, that I know are in my master fonts folder. Thus, it does not seem to be the sum total of my master font collection folder (which is in a Dropbox.)
I want to know because I would like to create a group, of some kind--still thinking about this--that does contain all the fonts in my master font collection, even the dopey ones that you end up with from bundles, where people used some stupid app to make their scribbles into a so-called "font." (oops, sorry, but...you know how it is.) I don't want to do that if it will just duplicate the 4K+ that are in the Library now. Whatever the "Library" is, or from whichever it is constituted.
Can anyone tell me? How does the Library get calculated? Also, opinions please for best practices: now that I have a fairly massive collection of fonts, in that dropbox folder, would it be better/smarter to use a synched folder? Recursively indexed? Or "just" a Group? For the "all" folder, that is?
Thanks much.