But the new feature that really made my day was QuickMatch. On the maintenance front, you can now check for font corruption and clear font caches right from within Fusion – avoiding the need for other 3rd party utilities. The panel requires CS 5 or higher to work. The ability to leave fonts in place or add them to the Fusion Vault is still there (I prefer to use the Vault to prevent corruption and make backups easier), but a few more goodies are really what makes Fusion 4 a great upgrade.įusion 4 introduces an independent font panel into Adobe Creative Suite apps that not only allows you to preview fonts, but create customized font digests for specific projects.
Fusion feature goodness!Īll the past and expected features such as auto-activation in Adobe CS apps, font smart sets, and identification/keyword tools are available in Suitcase Fusion. Google Web Fonts show up in the source list as a separate library as well, so there’s no confusion as to where a font came from. You also have Google’s Web Fonts available at your disposal for use in any application.
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I actually use WebINK for the fonts you see here on The Graphic Mac – so it’s nice to have access to them right in Suitcase. Your purchased WebINK fonts show up right in Fusion’s font source list, as well as approximately 4,600 other available fonts for purchase and use on your websites. The first thing I noticed was that Extensis’ WebINK technology is fully baked-in to Fusion. The Suitcase Fusion 4 interface will look familiar to existing users Integration And because the Fusion Core is part of the app itself, there’s no System Preference amnesia to deal with anymore. Suitcase and InDesign both launch quickly and continued to run smoothly over the last two weeks.
But use it for an hour or so and you begin to see they’ve changed much more than just its icon.įor starters, the problems I was having with slow load times of Suitcase, as well as Adobe InDesign with the auto-activation plugin installed, have gone away completely. Again.Īt first glance, Suitcase Fusion 4 doesn’t appear to have changed much beyond the new icon (part of their new corporate re-branding). Within hours, it became my preferred font manager. As luck would have it, Extensis just released Suitcase Fusion 4. When Apple released Lion, however, Font Explorer began exhibiting all sorts of issues for me.
Overall it just wasn’t a smooth experience, so I switched to Font Explorer X and all was well… for a while. It could have been my system and not Fusion, but I never found out. Nothing major, but it took forever to load, and the Fusion Core System Preference began to forget to launch quite often. But when Fusion 3 was released, I began noticing problems. It’s always been reliable and worked as smoothly as can be expected. In doing so, Extensis has raised the bar for other font managers when it comes to integrating fonts in the print and web world.įor years (long before the OS X days) my font manager of choice has always been Extensis Suitcase. Extensis has released Suitcase Fusion 4, and brought with it a few new features that designers will love.
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