What's new in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1315
Apr 30, 2024
- Fixed gaps in Views panel
- Improved high DPI support
- New light and dark themes
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1312 (Mar 8, 2024)
- Fixed stability issues
- Improved high DPI support
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1300 (Dec 16, 2023)
- Fixed stability issue
- Fixed issue with license activation
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1299 (Dec 14, 2023)
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1297 (Nov 14, 2023)
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1296 (Nov 11, 2023)
- Fixed search by font name flaw
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1293 (Sep 1, 2023)
- Improved export of loaded fonts
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1290 (Aug 20, 2023)
- Fixed issue related to continuous synchronization of libraries folders
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1288 (Aug 17, 2023)
- Improved sliders for variable fonts in Sample panel
- Improved support for OpenType layout features
- Improved theme support
- Improved usability
- Improved high DPI support
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1287 (Aug 17, 2023)
- Improved sliders for variable fonts in Sample panel
- Improved support for OpenType layout features
- Improved theme support
- Improved usabilty
- Improved high DPI support
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 12.0.0 Build 1286 (Aug 16, 2023)
- Improved sliders for variable fonts in Sample panel
- Improved support for OpenType layout features
- Improved theme support
- Improved usabilty
- Improved high DPI support
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1282 (Dec 12, 2022)
- Added context menu for tagging fonts
- Fixed rare freeze issue with corrupt font
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1280 (Nov 22, 2022)
- Fixed variable font interpolation issue.
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1279 (Nov 21, 2022)
- Fixed refresh issue within tag manager
- Several other improvements
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1277 (Oct 11, 2022)
- Fixed stability issue
- Several other improvements
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1274 (Aug 23, 2022)
- Fixed row height issue with mixed dpi monitors
- Fixed background image color issue in Dark Theme
- Fixed rare issue related to processing corrupt fonts
- Fixed search by flaw
- Added support for drag-n-drop font families
- Several other improvements
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1268 (May 21, 2021)
- Fixed save layout issue
- Fixed rare variable font load issue
- Several minor improvements
New in MainType 11.0.0 Build 1265 (May 19, 2021)
- Improved support for variable fonts with axis sliders
- Improved support for OpenType layout features
- Improved network support
- Updated list of registered foundries
- Several other minor improvements
New in MainType 10.0.0 Build 1239 (Aug 27, 2020)
- Several minor improvements
New in MainType 10.0.0 Build 1235 (Jul 24, 2020)
- Fixed preview draw issue with unloaded fonts
- Added vertical scrollbar to OpenType layout features in Sample panel
- Redesigned and improved find character feature
New in MainType 10.0.0 Build 1229 (Jul 14, 2020)
- New OpenType layout features in Sample panel
- New Note panel to add a custom note to your fonts
- New dark theme
- Show sample text
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved PANOSE output
- Added Safe Mode, so you can delete fonts that are causing trouble
- Update vendor information
- Expanded custom views with a total of 3 features
- More metrics in Font Information panel
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in MainType 9.0.0 Build 1203 (Feb 18, 2020)
- Several performance improvements
New in MainType 9.0.0 Build 1199 (Feb 7, 2020)
- Font family is now used for both sort and search; used to be full font name
- Fixed bug related to copy/move font resources
- Improved high DPI support
- Other user interface improvements
New in MainType 9.0.0 Build 1183 (Jan 23, 2020)
- Fixed an issue with features field in custom views
- New option to delete root folder from groups view
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved check for updates
New in MainType 9.0.0 Build 1182 (Jan 23, 2020)
- New option to delete root folder from groups view
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved check for updates
New in MainType 9.0.0 Build 1181 (Jan 14, 2020)
- Major performance improvement related to sync folders with a lot of font folders
- More stability improvements
- Improved behaviour related to show zoom popup option
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1135 (Apr 16, 2018)
- Fixed issue with font previews
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1134 (Apr 3, 2018)
- Fixed registry startup issue
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1132 (Feb 22, 2018)
- Fixed issue with 32 bit installer
- Several minor enhancements
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1127 (Jan 22, 2018)
- Fixed rare issue (known as problem 0x73846223)
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1126 (Jan 19, 2018)
- Fixed issue with InDesign CS6 plugin
- Fixed rare upgrade issue
New in MainType 8.0.0 Build 1125 (Jan 19, 2018)
- Fixed rare issue "Cannot convert NULL field to INTEGER"
- Fixed plugin signature check
- Fixed issue with opening type 1 font location
- Fixed rare issue with installing type 1 fonts
- Fixed issue within update check feature
- Updated the manual
New in MainType 8.0.0.1122 (Jan 18, 2018)
- Support for variable fonts
- New icon set (and improved High DPI / Large Fonts support)
- New font properties (Classification, Panose, Kern, and OpenType Features)
- Updated the font foundry list
- New Adobe InDesign CC plugins (2017 and 2018)
- New option to open font file location in explorer
- Enhanced delete fonts functionality
- Importing and exporting tags and ratings
New in MainType 7.0.0.1032 (Mar 31, 2017)
- Improved preview of loaded fonts
- Force fonts to install in Windows fonts folder
- When tagging fonts, the list will no longer update automatically, so you can continue to tag fonts in the same view
- When a single font family (in family grouping) is selected, all fonts can be installed, loaded, and uninstalled
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
New in MainType 7.0.0.1012 (Jul 6, 2016)
- Prevent fonts from installing directly from a removable disk
- Several other minor improvements
New in MainType 7.0.0.1007 (Jul 6, 2016)
- New Loaded and Installed fields in custom views
- Fixed hidden groups issue
- Updated plugin for InDesign 6
- Fixed type 1 font preview issues
New in MainType 7.0 (Jun 9, 2016)
- New Free Edition for non-commercial use.
- New Adobe InDesign CC plugins.
- Export loaded TrueType and OpenType fonts.
- Drag and drop from Windows file explorer.
- Enhanced Layout Manager.
- Define font size for printing font listings.
- Improved custom views.
- New automatically install fonts feature.
- Support for team synchronization through sync folders.
New in MainType 6.0 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Font tagging
- Synchronize font folders
- Improved registry fixer
New in MainType 5.1.2 Build 701 (Feb 14, 2013)
- Performance improvements
- Several bug fixes
New in MainType 5.1.1 Build 656 (Jan 23, 2013)
- Fixed a bug that caused a rare but annoying deadlock
New in MainType 5.1.0 Build 635 (Jan 11, 2013)
- Reintroduced copy text as RTF from Sample panel
- Fixed a font install issue
- Fixed issue within character grid while in glyph mode
- A hand full of minor tweaks
New in MainType 5.0 Build 617 (Sep 28, 2012)
- Font registry fixer
- Invalid font resource overview
- Ability to remove fonts from ignored fonts list
- Directly install/uninstall fonts by clicking the font status icon
- Directly rate fonts by clicking the stars in the rating column
New in MainType 4.5 (Jun 2, 2012)
- Network support
- Font auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe InDesign (CS5-CS6)
- Print full character repertoire
- Show fonts with missing characters in red
New in MainType 4.0 (Nov 8, 2011)
- New user interface
- Improved performance
- New user views
- Quick search
- Optimized support for large font collections
- Easy backup and restore of your font library
- New layout features improves usability
- Detailed side-by-side font information
New in MainType 3.0 (Jan 26, 2011)
- Better handling of font substitutes
- New context menu item: Open Containing Folder
- New filter option, Font Type: Unknown
- Added Foundry and a Full Font Name (Postscript) columns to the Fonts pane
- Show all Glyphs option
- Fixed issues with PostScript Type 1 fonts on Windows x64
- New setting for font display quality (aliased/ cleartype, etc)
- Automatic online version checking
New in MainType 2.1.1 (Jul 16, 2007)
- Type preview text into Font pane drop-down list
- Character zoom popup window
- More predefined font variables
- Use ALT- to insert characters into the Sample pane
- Improved appearance (colors in samples and zoom pane, row striping in the list of fonts)
- After the trial period MainType will continue to run, but in restricted mode
- Install and uninstall fonts through double-click
New in MainType 2.0 (Jul 27, 2006)
- With this release, MainType reveals even more important typographic data, like Unicode ranges, and the number of kerning pairs. It also contains a new Browse Favorites feature that makes it easier to browse through several font collections.
New in MainType 2.0 (Jul 27, 2006)
- With this release, MainType reveals even more important typographic data, like Unicode ranges, and the number of kerning pairs. It also contains a new Browse Favorites feature that makes it easier to browse through several font collections.
New in MainType 2.0 (Jul 26, 2006)
- With this release, MainType reveals even more important typographic data, like Unicode ranges, and the number of kerning pairs.
- It also contains a new Browse Favorites feature that makes it easier to browse through several font collections.