MainType - Release History
MainType 5.1.2 [February 13, 2013]
- Performance improvements
- Several bug fixes
MainType 5.1.1 [January 23, 2013]
- Fixed a bug that caused a rare but annoying deadlock
MainType 5.1 [January 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
MainType 5.0 [September 27, 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
MainType 4.5 [May 31, 2012]
- Network support
- Font auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe InDesign (CS5-CS6)
- Print full character repertoire
- Show fonts with missing characters in red
MainType 4.0 [September 02, 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
MainType 3.0 [March 31, 2010]
- 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
MainType 2.1.1 [May 16, 2007]
- Install and uninstall fonts through double-click
MainType 2.1 [May 2, 2007]
- Type preview text into Font pane drop-down list
- Character zoom popup window
- More predefined font variables
- Use ALT-<character code> 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
MainType 2.0 [July 25, 2006]
- Enhanced print options
- Improved font export
- Added browse favorites
- Search by Unicode Character codepoint
- More Layout features improves usability
- More font information (Unicode ranges, tables, etc.)
MainType 1.1 [February 2, 2006]
- Added shortcut support
- Enhanced print options
- Improved Export Font Information to HTML
- Added a Welcome dialog
- Added an Update Reminder dialog
- Improved font folder processing
MainType 1.0 [December 2, 2005]
First release of MainType. This powerful font manager for Windows offers a straightforward and easy-to-use interface to help you maintain your fonts.