It took about 20 minutes to migrate more than 10,000 fonts and 30 sets from Suitcase X1 to Fusion on my 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook. In my test, I chose to not use the Vault, instead leaving my fonts in their original locations. This trick is tremendously useful for prepress service bureaus that need to be sure that only the client’s fonts are active. If you hold down the Command key while dragging fonts onto either the Suitcase Fusion icon in the Dock, or into its open window, those fonts will be temporarily activated and all other active fonts will be deactivated. The quickest way to activate or deactivate font sets is from a list that appears when you click and hold Fusion’s Dock icon. Conversely, you can drag a font set from the Suitcase Fusion window onto the desktop to create a folder containing a copy of those fonts. One easy way to create a font set is to drag a folder of fonts from the desktop onto the Suitcase Fusion window. You can also choose the size of the display type. It can display your own string of text (useful for choosing a title font), or text in paragraph, waterfall, or ABC123 format.
Finding a font is easy: you can either type the first few letters of its name or keyword into the QuickFind field, or use Fusion’s Find feature to combine multiple criteria, such as foundry, type, and classification.Ī Preview window displays a sample of any fonts you select, including deactivated fonts. You can sort any of these by clicking its column head. This produced shorter Font menus, as well as the ability to apply a Bold or Italic style to a font by using keyboard commands.)įonts can be listed as suitcases, typeface families, or individual styles, and can include columns showing each font’s foundry, version, file size, kerning information, and classification. It let you change a font suitcase so that its font styles would collapse into the main font name in Font menus.
(Harmonized fonts are a product of an old utility called Font Harmony that was popular among designers. This lets Fusion activate individual font styles for a document, which uses fewer system resources and avoids individual font conflicts that may occur by activating entire font suitcases. When you add fonts to Fusion, they are broken down to individual styles. And I’m eager to see a server version of Fusion, which Extensis says is in the works. In addition, I’d like to see a plug-in that auto-activates fonts for Adobe Photoshop. This information would be helpful because I was often surprised and baffled at the fonts that were auto-activated. While Fusion does display a list of auto-activated fonts, it doesn’t indicate which application requested the fonts. These plug-ins can also deactivate fonts when you close the document or quit the application. Without those plug-ins font managers are basically guessing as to which version of a font was used. In addition, Fusion has special plug-ins for QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Illustrator that allow it to auto-activate the exact version of each font used, rather than guessing. If you open a document that uses inactive fonts, Fusion can automatically activate them. To accommodate them, Suitcase Fusion can also manage your fonts without copying them into the Vault. Suitcase Fusion adopted all of these technologies.īecause the Vault is a new concept for graphic designers, who are used to having direct access to their font files, some may be reluctant to use it. And, because the fonts are no longer scattered across your hard drives or network, it can’t lose track of them. The Vault will accept only one copy of any font, which prevents problems caused by duplicates.
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Font Reserve accomplished this feat with three tricks: copying all your fonts into a database named the Font Vault identifying every font down to the bit level and building plug-ins for popular design applications that add a tiny bit of code to each document to identify the exact version of every font used. Extensis has preserved and improved this interface for Fusion.įont Reserve was developed from the ground up to meet the needs of publishing and prepress professionals who require precise identification of every version of every font, and rock-solid, reliable performance. A huge number of graphic designers have used Suitcase for many years so its interface is not only familiar, it had been developed to suit their specific needs.
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