![]() ![]() A slider is available to narrow the relevance, and the matches can be made based on style or classification. The color picker is very intuitive and allows you set the font color and the background.Īnother very useful feature, Quick Match allows the user to select a font and find similar fonts by right clicking and choosing Quick Match. This is especially handy in the initial phase of design and can really speed things up for those among us who take a more visual approach to choosing fonts. One of the new features added to the interface is the ability to choose a color for the font preview. When you restart, the fonts are no longer active and won’t hog any system resources. Using temporary activation is especially nice when you’re starting a project and experimenting with different typefaces. All libraries and sets are retained.įonts can be activated on a permanent or temporary basis for a set, a font family, or an individual font. For example, you can create a set with all of the fonts with “Adobe” in their name:įor upgraders from Suitcase Fusion 3, the installation is seamless. These are sets that you can create based on search criteria. Smart sets take that idea that one step further. Adding new fonts is a simple drag and drop procedure. From there you can create individual sets that can be activated or deactivated with a click. Once installed, Suitcase Fusion takes an inventory of all your installed fonts and puts them in a library. This of course was somewhat like herding cats, only a bit more frustrating since cats do tend to be much cuter than fonts. Prior to that, I just figured that managing fonts meant installing and uninstalling them as needed. I’ve been using Suitcase Fusion since version 3 was released in 2010 and have grown completely dependent upon it to activate fonts when opening up InDesign and Illustrator files. It’s available for Windows and Mac for $99. Suitcase Fusion 4 is the latest upgrade to Extensis’ flagship font manager that began its life as a merger of two programs, Suitcase and Font Reserve. Font Doctor included for free.Ĭons: Inconsistent support throughout Creative Suite applications. Auto-activation support for InDesign CS3–CS6, Illustrator CS3–CS6, InCopy CS4–CS6, Photoshop CS4–CS6, and QuarkXPress 7–9. But it really is the same application for two different platforms, with general overall feature parity.Pros: Easily manage thousands of fonts, including Google Web Fonts and WebINK fonts. There are a couple of things the Mac version has which are lacking on the Windows version (export fonts by dragging to the desktop, and instantly activate with over-rides by dragging fonts onto the Dock icon), and there are a couple of things the Windows version has that the Mac version does not yet have (auto-activation plug-ins for CS2 apps in addition to CS3 and 4, recognizes and previews. Now, if you want to get picky, there are a tiny handful of differences between the Mac and Windows versions of the application, mostly related to differences between the operating system capabilities themselves. The one feature I still can’t get over is the tear-off previews ( check it out here, or see the Quicktime version). That’s huge, and the list of features is as long as your arm. The main thing is that finally, the Windows version of Extensis’ flagship font management application has parity with the Mac version. After all, it was almost two years ago that I wrote about how and why “Windows font management has sucked” for my Adobe blog. I’m excited to see Suitcase Fusion 2 for Windows come out as the second new Extensis font management product since I joined the company back in April. ![]()
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