Feature Request FontExpert
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:45 pm
My suggestion for FontExpert is to NOT keep duplicating fonts (library, groups, etc.) or create extra folders and "virtual" folders, but simply work off of an internal FontExpert database only that is created by scanning a selected drive, computer, selected folders or whatever.
Original fonts never ever get duplicated, except for when one wants to copy them deliberately. This database is where I would be able view my entire list of fonts (and their properties) throughout my system, and filter them by...
1. Only my "Working Fonts" (fonts I actually use, maybe as another type of category or per a folder I create to hold the files)
2. by Category, like what is done now
3. by Font Types (OpenType, etc. FontExpert now only allows this via the Library LIB View. I choose not to create a library now because it unnecessarily creates duplicate fonts in it and messes up my searches)
4. by Location, within selected folders / drives, etc. (right now a category search is for all fonts everywhere on my system)
5. by Groups... no shortcuts, or virtual folders, etc. In an older version of FontExpert I actually deleted an entire font off of my system because I "removed it" from a group. Woke me up as to how careful I need to be with how this program works!
6. and a COMBINATION of those filters I describe above. This, to me, is ESSENTIAL.
And, thank you for adding the "Uncategorized" category in Search. Brilliant! Plus for allowing me to open the program and by default view fonts by Font Name instead of File Name. Font Name should be the default anyway IMHO. And for how much faster it is compared to my 2014 version.
Original fonts never ever get duplicated, except for when one wants to copy them deliberately. This database is where I would be able view my entire list of fonts (and their properties) throughout my system, and filter them by...
1. Only my "Working Fonts" (fonts I actually use, maybe as another type of category or per a folder I create to hold the files)
2. by Category, like what is done now
3. by Font Types (OpenType, etc. FontExpert now only allows this via the Library LIB View. I choose not to create a library now because it unnecessarily creates duplicate fonts in it and messes up my searches)
4. by Location, within selected folders / drives, etc. (right now a category search is for all fonts everywhere on my system)
5. by Groups... no shortcuts, or virtual folders, etc. In an older version of FontExpert I actually deleted an entire font off of my system because I "removed it" from a group. Woke me up as to how careful I need to be with how this program works!
6. and a COMBINATION of those filters I describe above. This, to me, is ESSENTIAL.
And, thank you for adding the "Uncategorized" category in Search. Brilliant! Plus for allowing me to open the program and by default view fonts by Font Name instead of File Name. Font Name should be the default anyway IMHO. And for how much faster it is compared to my 2014 version.