- #SUITCASE FUSION 6 FOR MAC#
- #SUITCASE FUSION 6 PDF#
- #SUITCASE FUSION 6 INSTALL#
- #SUITCASE FUSION 6 ARCHIVE#
- #SUITCASE FUSION 6 UPGRADE#
Suitcase Fusion 6 is available for Mac and Windows for $119 and the license covers two machines on either platform or (like a Creative Cloud license) one of each. You’ll wonder how you lived without a professional font management solution. If you’re not using a font manager and have more than just the core system fonts installed, give Fusion a try.
#SUITCASE FUSION 6 UPGRADE#
If you’re using an earlier version of Suitcase and thinking of moving to a newer operating system, the upgrade is worth the price for compatibility alone. Just be aware: both ends of this process can take several minutes depending on the number of fonts you have and you’ll want to allow some time for the file to sync to the cloud. Once I installed Suitcase Fusion in Yosemite, I was able to easily restore my prior configuration including all of my fonts.
#SUITCASE FUSION 6 INSTALL#
I archived my Font Vault before wiping the hard drive on my Macbook Air in preparation for a clean install of Yosemite.
#SUITCASE FUSION 6 ARCHIVE#
Just archive the vault and then restore it on another (or the same) machine. This feature only works within the same platform but it’s remarkably helpful and very simple. By doing so, you’ll have ability to share your configuration with others (subject to font licenses) or to keep two of your machines in sync with each other. One terrific new feature that I’ve already taken advantage of is the ability to back-up your Font Vault to either Dropbox or GoogleDrive. Click on any of the layouts and you’ll be taken to Extensis’ Pinterest page. If you’re feeling the need for a creative spark, there’s a “Fontspiration” window.
#SUITCASE FUSION 6 PDF#
Those layouts can be printed out from the application, but as I noted in my review for Suitcase Fusion 5, this feature seems a bit incomplete without a PDF export. Need to compare fonts as they might look in a layout? Switch the preview mode to QuickComp and choose from 26 different layouts that can be changed by clicking on sections and choosing a font. This creates a PNG file that can be emailed for review. How many times have you needed to send a font sample to a client? I like to change the view of the font samples to paragraph, copy/paste in some text from a project, and then drag the small camera icon to the desktop. It has a nice array of features that can inspire you and make it easier to collaborate with others. Suitcase Fusion is not just about font activation. As with all font activations, you have a choice to activate temporarily (until you restart your computer) or permanently. Once created, activation is a simple click. I used to leave them off most of the time but have added them to some of my saved workspaces to make accessing them quicker.įont sets (groups of fonts) can be created easily by dragging and dropping fonts from the preview window. Speaking of those panels they are now HTML5-based and noticeably faster and more responsive then the previous Flex-based panels. With Extensis panels that are added to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, activation can even be accomplished without ever leaving those friendly confines. QuarkXpress versions 9 and 10 are also supported.
It’s a snap to activate and deactivate fonts from within the application and auto-activation plugins are installed automatically for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and InCopy CS5 through CC2014 (note that CS4 and earlier are no longer supported). Unfortunately, I don’t have Retina hardware available to test this on.
If you’re running it on a Mac Retina display you should notice sharper previews. The interface has been tweaked enough to notice-especially the flat UI– but it will still feel familiar to upgraders. If you’ve recently upgraded your OS, or are thinking of doing so, this alone makes the upgrade to Suitcase Fusion 6 worthwhile to avoid incompatibilities. While there are no earthshaking new features, this release is fully compatible with the newest operating systems, Yosemite and Windows 8.1. As a mature application, this is an evolutionary upgrade-and that’s not a bad thing. I’m now on my fourth version of Extensis Suitcase Fusion, having first used it at version 3 and I have been pleased with the improvements with each release. With that many fonts, a font manager isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. Even scrolling through a list that long would drive me nuts. If you’re still reading then like me, you know that installing more than 4,000 fonts is going to cause all kinds of problems. I have thousands of fonts from Adobe’s Font Folio and CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, plus countless others that I’ve acquired through the years.
0 kommentar(er)
