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1. 2 Select the desired font library such as Suitcase Fusion Fonts or Google E System Fonts wa WebilNK hb Google a My Sew Digest BE Adobe Caslon Pro Bold a Adobe Carlon Pro Bold Mali M Adobe Coon Pro Lali a Adobe Caslon Pro Regular ya Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold 5 3 Select the text you want to change ha In Photoshop choose the Move tool then select the type layer k Using InDesign or Illustrator select some text or choose the Selection tool and select one or more text blocks 4 Click the desired font in the Extensis Font Panel 47 Modifying type Once you have applied a font from the Extensis Font Panel that font becomes activated for your current session and the font and its styles will appear in your design application s Font and Style drop down menus You can use the font just as if it were any other font activated by Suitcase Fusion 5 In particular you can e Apply the font to any selected text using the Font menu e Change the size of the applied font by selecting the desired text and choosing a new size from the Font Size menu or entry field e Apply a different style by selecting the desired text and choosing a style from the Style menu Tips for Photoshop users You may find the following features of Photoshop helpful when working with type layers The Layers panel Much of Photoshop s versatility comes from its ability to work with art type and special eff
2. NOTE On Mac OS X the Add Fonts menu item changes depending on what is selected in the Libraries pane It may read Add Fonts to Set or Add Fonts to Library e Select folders on the desktop that contain fonts Drag the folders onto a library in the Libraries pane of Suitcase Fusion 5 You can also drag the folder to an existing set to create a nested set For more information on the different types of sets available in Suitcase Fusion 5 see Setson page 27 NOTE Suitcase Fusion 5 lets you create nested sets sets within sets but it does not automatically create them as you add folders of fonts All the fonts within a folder will become a single set even if many folders of fonts are nested within the first folder If you need to add nested folders as individual sets select those folders and add them independently Adding fonts temporarily Temporary fonts are managed by Suitcase Fusion until you log off or restart your computer This is useful if you have fonts that are used only with a specific project and that you may not want on your system after working on the project By default temporary fonts are added to Suitcase Fusion and left in place Temporary fonts are never added to the Font Vault so you do not need to change the Font Vault preference before adding temporary fonts Temporary fonts are listed as a blue dot with box around it in the status column of the Fonts Sets and Preview panes Deactivated temporary fonts only show the box
3. Some key requirements for font management are e Ability to manage fonts in System font folders see Macintosh system fontson page 17 e Ability to manage user specified sets of fonts see Setson page 27 e Ability to automatically activate fonts used in a document you open see Font Auto Activationon page 42 and Global auto activationon page 33 e Ability to handle special required System fonts see Overriding system fontson page 17 e Ability to work in the background with no user intervention necessary see The Font Management Coreon page 14 Other features that can help your workflow include e Ability to preview fonts in multiple configurations see Traditional previewson page 36 QuickCompon page 38 and Web Viewon page 38 e Ability to print font specimens see Printing previewson page 41 e Ability to search for fonts based on any of several criteria see Finding fontson page 29 e Ability to store fonts in a common protected location see The Font Vaulton page 16 e Ability to activate fonts in place without moving them see Adding fonts in placeon page 22 e Ability to collect fonts for redistribution see Collecting fontson page 25 e Ability to troubleshoot fonts see Resolving problemson page 23 e Ability to clean system and application font caches see Cleaning font cacheson page 51 Fonts and font activation Without benefit of a font manager your computer normally stores all fonts in one or more system font folders and keeps
4. 1 In the Fonts pane select the fonts that you want to include in a printed sample page 2 Customize the preview type text and size The sample pages include text across the width of a printed page using your text and size settings 3 Choose File gt Print Preview Pane NOTE If you have a large number of fonts in the preview pane or a very large point size selected it may take a long time and many pages to print 4l Font Auto Activation To automatically activate precisely the correct fonts used in documents Suitcase Fusion includes plug in software modules that use the Extensis Font Sense technology The plug ins save Font Sense metadata information that uniquely identifies fonts with documents and then use that metadata to automatically activate the correct fonts when you open a document In addition to enable precise font identification and activation the plug ins can identify all the fonts used in a document and then create a set or collect the fonts for delivery to a service bureau The Create Document Set feature and the Collect Fonts for Output feature both streamline the process of locating all of the diverse fonts used in documents Font Sense As most publishers know when you open a document and it requires a specific font activating any font with that name is not an option In the font world Helvetica is not Helvetica is not Helvetica Even fonts from the same foundry such as Adobe Garamond exist in multi
5. Extensis and click Collect Fonts for Output In Adobe InDesign InCopy or Illustrator choose Type gt Suitcase Fusion gt Collect Fonts for Output In QuarkXPress choose Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion gt Collect Fonts for Output Use the directory dialog to navigate to a location for the new fonts folder g Type a name for the folder in the field P 5 Click Save Suitcase Fusion copies the fonts and places them in the new folder in the specified location 25 gt Organizing Fonts Suitcase Fusion 5 provides many ways to organize and display your fonts You can keep fonts in multiple libraries create sets of fonts within a library and even create sets within sets For details about creating libraries and reasons you might choose to use multiple libraries see Libraries on page 21 You can decide which fonts to list and how much information you need about them such as foundry class and version You can arrange the columns of font information and sort fonts according to any criteria you prefer Suitcase Fusion also allows you to list fonts individually Minion Minion Bold Minion Italic etc or by family just Minion The Find controls in Suitcase Fusion allow you to quickly display specific collections of fonts within a library For example you can display only OpenType fonts only active fonts or only PostScript serif fonts by Adobe If you need to find the same fonts over and over again you can save the criteria
6. The process of propagating changes between Universal Type Server and Universal Type Client Changes made on the server side such as fonts added to a workgroup are communicated to the client and changes made on the client such as keywords added to a font are communicated to the server system font A font installed in one of the locations designated by your operating system Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client allow management of system fonts to a much lesser degree than fonts stored in the Font Vault Typically system fonts will include only those needed by the operating system See also system font policy system font policy A list of fonts that Universal Type Server allows to reside permanently on a user s system If the font policy is applied the Font Management Core will remove and optionally delete disallowed fonts on systems with Universal Type Client or the Core Client installed T temporary activation To make a font available to all applications until it is purposefully deactivated or until the user logs off the system TrueType An outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980 s as a competitor to Adobe s PostScript Type 1 fonts TrueType was cross licensed with Microsoft and first supported in 1991 Unlike PostScript fonts at the time TrueType fonts could be rendered on screen and required just one file PostScript fonts require multiple files per font on both Mac OS and Windows Type 1 font See PostS
7. magazines newspapers and books and service bureaus and printers Each type of user typically handles fonts differently with web designers using fonts hosted on a server freelance graphic designers typically maintaining their own fonts creative firms preferring to use the same fonts on all systems and service bureaus managing client s fonts Suitcase Fusion provides different methods for adding activating and managing fonts to suit each different workflow As you continue to work with Suitcase Fusion you ll discover the methods that work best for your work environment However until you re comfortable with the software you may wish to use one of the typical setups provided here Keep in mind that these examples are merely suggestions and may need to be modified to suit your needs Server based workgroup font solutions In workgroup environments the capabilities of a server based font management system are often a necessity A server based solution centralizes font management administration and control ensures that all users are using exactly the same font ensures font license compliancy and protects against rogue fonts entering the workflow Universal Type Server is the server based solution available from Extensis and sold separately from Suitcase Fusion Universal Type Server is available in many different configurations to meet the needs of different organizations and workgroup sizes Universal Type Server is available for Macintosh
8. your match set is large The Main window In Suitcase Fusion 5 you will do most of your work in the Main window which consists of four panes the toolbar and the status bar A Toolbar D Fonts pane B Libraries pane E Details Panel C Previews pane F Status bar Changing the window e You can resize the window panes by dragging the divider between panes Pane sizes are restored the next time you start Suitcase Fusion e You can show or hide the toolbar by choosing View gt Show Hide Toolbar e You can show or hide the Previews pane by choosing View gt Show Font Previews or View gt Hide Font Previews e You can show or hide the Fonts pane by choosing View gt Show Font List or View gt Hide Font List e You can show or hide the Details Panel by choosing View gt Show Details Panel or View gt Hide Details Panel Toolbar The toolbar provides access to frequently used operations including activation options and set creation e You can customize the buttons that appear on the toolbar choose View gt Customize Toolbar 12 Libraries pane The Libraries pane lists all your local font libraries your System Fonts and any external libraries you are currently using such as WebINK or Google fonts When you select a library it will automatically expand to show the sets contained within it and the Fonts pane Previews pane and Details Panel will change to reflect the selection Similarly when you select a set it will e
9. 43 embedded objects fonts in 45 enabling Font Sense 45 enabling Google fonts 35 encoding 36 example workflows 17 exporting sets 27 Extensis Font Panel See Font Panel Extensis contacting 63 external font libraries 34 in the Font Panel 47 F families 26 activating 32 auto activating 45 grouping fonts by 26 restoring 26 favorites 31 Favorites Smart Set 31 find criteria 29 in smart sets 30 finding fonts 29 finding fonts with QuickFind 30 finding similar fonts 30 floating previews 37 activating and deactivating fonts 37 closing all 37 font activation status 33 font activation automatic 42 Font Book 10 font caches cleaning 51 font conflicts 24 font digests in the Font Panel 46 font encoding 36 font library 21 Font Management Core 14 font management overview 6 font manager preparing for 6 problems solved by 6 font menus updating 33 Font Panel 46 activating and deactivating fonts 46 font digests in 46 opening 46 using to apply fonts 47 font preview graphic 37 font previews showing and hiding 12 font problems 23 font samples 41 Font Sense 42 adding to documents 52 enabling 45 font snapshot 37 font subset 40 Font Vault 16 backing up 49 benefits of 16 changing 50 disabling 22 for freelance designers 18 new 50 using 16 fonts in documents 43 fonts in embedded graphics plug in setting 45 scanning for 4
10. Fonts in this folder are typically not essential and are available only to the specific user who has logged on to the computer This folder may also contain fonts that are installed by third party applications Other various locations Fonts in this set are fonts that are active from a location not known by Suitcase Fusion typically activated by another application NOTE You cannot create add or remove sets or fonts in the System Fonts library Required system fonts Fonts that are required for Mac OS X to function properly are located in the System Fonts System folder and are displayed with a locked amp 4 icon To ensure the stability of your system these fonts cannot be manually deactivated Fonts that are considered required may change with each release of Mac OS X Keep your version of Suitcase Fusion current by choosing Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Check for Updates Overriding system fonts If you attempt to activate a font that has the same PostScript name as an active system font as long as the font is not a required system font Suitcase Fusion automatically activates the requested font by deactivating the system font If the font has the same PostScript name as a required system font the requested font overrides the required font without deactivating it Example workflows Suitcase Fusion is designed for publishers web designers freelance graphic designers advertising agencies publishers producing
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12. Web View Click Font Painter again when you are finished Select Body Selects the entire body of the web page Clear selections Removes all selections and resets the formatting Previous Change and Next Change Allows you to review the changes made to a page one at a time Reload page Removes any formatting and reloads the current page Stop Stops loading the current page Selection information Displays the HTML tag and class of the current selection If you have applied a WebINK font to the selected element that information is displayed as well Font size Select different font sizes from the drop down menu or by moving the slider Font thumbnail The font thumbnails give an example of a few characters in the font Click a thumbnail to apply the font to an element 39 Glyph View The Glyph View Window allows you to view and compare the glyphs from selected fonts This tool can be helpful when e Comparing the details of a specific glyph in multiple fonts e Locating a specific character or symbol within a font e Determining how robust the character palette is in a font e Needing to know the Unicode value of a character and what keyboard commands are used to create it To open the Glyph View window select one or more fonts and choose Window gt View Glyphs Font menu Choose one of your selected fonts from the menu or use the lt and gt buttons to view the previous or next font Recent glyphs This sho
13. You can work with fonts as follows e You can activate fonts permanently so they re active every time you turn on your computer e You can activate fonts temporarily so they re available until you shut down your computer yet not active the next time you turn it on e Auto activation plug ins precisely activate fonts when you open documents in popular graphic design applications e Application Sets allow you to specify fonts to activate whenever you launch a specific application e Once fonts are active they re available for use in all applications e When you re finished using fonts you can deactivate them at any time e Suitcase Fusion shows your system fonts as always active Suitcase Fusion 5 also includes the ability to auto activate WebINK fonts used within design documents See The Extensis Font Panel on page 46 for details Activating fonts NOTE When you activate a font through Suitcase Fusion it is available to all applications Quick activation e To quickly activate a set click near the left edge of the Libraries pane in the row of the set to activate Library ia Lal e To quickly activate a family or font click in the Activation column the column that has an empty circle in its header in the row for that font 15 bP 5 Adobe Arabic k bP 5 Adobe Caslon Pro e To quickly and permanently activate a set family or font hold down the OPTION key while clicking Activating selected fonts Selection rules
14. all fonts active all the time This can pose several problems for a professional designer who may have hundreds or even thousands of fonts e Because active fonts are loaded into system memory the memory available to applications will be reduced e Applications may take along time to generate their Font menus and those menus can take a long time to scroll through e Ifyou need different versions of the same font for different projects or clients you will need to manually install and remove the appropriate version e Fonts stored in system folders are harder to access for collecting copies and for making backups A font manager solves all of these problems by keeping fonts separate from the system font folders and allowing you to activate only the fonts you need A professional font manager goes beyond these basics by providing automatic activation of specific font versions for individual documents identification of duplicate fonts and other advanced features Preparing your system Before installing Suitcase Fusion there are some things you can do to prepare your system for using a font manager While these are not mandatory you ll find that most if not all of these suggestions can make your transition to managed fonts smoother Back up your system Before starting any project that requires you to move or delete files or install new software you should make sure that your computer is adequately backed up so that if something goe
15. around the empty activation icon In addition if you drag a folder of fonts onto the Suitcase Fusion dock icon the fonts enclosed are added temporarily and automatically activated This works even if you drag fonts onto the dock icon when Suitcase Fusion is not running Suitcase Fusion launches and adds the fonts on demand To temporarily add fonts to Suitcase Fusion 1 Choose File gt Add Temporarily COMMAND OPTION L 2 Navigate to the font you want to add and click Open To deactivate and remove all fonts added temporarily 1 Choose Edit gt Remove All Temporary Fonts 2 Suitcase Fusion displays a warning dialog Click OK To remove some of the temporary fonts and not others 1 In the Fonts pane select the fonts that you want to remove 2 Choose Edit gt Delete from Library You can also right click the selected fonts and choose Delete from Library from the shortcut menu Adding fonts in place Sometimes you may find it desirable to add fonts to your font library without including them in your Font Vault This might be the case for example if you are using a client owned font and you prefer to segregate it from your own fonts This is called adding fonts in place To add fonts in place select one or more fonts or folders of fonts on your Desktop or elsewhere on your computer hold down the OPTION key and drag the fonts to the Library or Fonts pane of Suitcase Fusion While not recommended except in special cases you can
16. burn a copy to a CD or DVD NOTE The Font Vault is a folder To ensure the integrity of your font files do not modify its contents To locate the font vault on Mac OS X 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window 3 Select the path showing the font vault location then choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Services gt Reveal On Mac OS X v10 5 choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Services gt Finder gt Reveal 4 Click Stop FMCore in the Preferences window In the warning dialog click Stop FMCore Suitcase Fusion 5 will exit 5 Copy the font vault to a safe location 49 Creating a new Font Vault There are many reasons why you may want to create a new Font Vault If you have multiple font collections that you need to keep separate and ensure that they are never used at the same time As an alternate to Libraries for organizing projects you can keep one Vault per project and easily swap between font collections This ensures that all fonts are archived with project specific fonts as well as font organization into a single Font Vault If multiple users need access to a specific set of fonts all fonts can be added to a single Font Vault When one person is done working on a project and needs to pass it on to another person the Font Vault can be passed on along with the other project files This provides an easy way for small teams to ensure consistency It s important to note tha
17. deactivated Follow the instruction for the other font manager to remove all components and to ensure that it doesn t interfere with normal operation of Suitcase Fusion If you are using Universal Type Client You cannot use Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client on the same system and Suitcase Fusion does not connect to Universal Type Server If you are using an older version of Suitcase or Suitcase Fusion If your version of Suitcase or Suitcase Fusion is older than version 13 you will need to uninstall the older version before installing Suitcase Fusion 5 Otherwise you can leave your old version of Suitcase Fusion installed and upgrade it in place To determine your software version click the application menu immediately to the right of the Apple menu and choose About lt application name gt If your version number is 13 x 14 X or 15 x Suitcase Fusion 2 3 or 4 then you can upgrade just by installing Suitcase Fusion 5 If your version number is 12 x see Upgrading from Suitcase Fusion for Macintoshon page 9 Installing Suitcase Fusion 5 The Suitcase Fusion 5 installer will guide you through the installation process Download the most recent installer from the Extensis website http www extensis com support product support suitcase fusion 5 Before installing be sure to quit any other programs that are running especially design applications such as Adobe Illustrator or QuarkXPress To start the installat
18. e Phone 1 800 935 6453 Office Hours 7 00 AM 5 00 PM Mon Fri Pacific Time outside of those hours leave a message for a return call e Email pisupport extensis com If you are in Europe Africa the Middle East India or Australasia e Extensis Europe 44 1604 654270 09 00 17 30 GMT Mon Fri e Extensis Aus NZ 61 3 9376 3079 09 00 17 30 EST Mon Fri e Out of hours pager 44 7699 715931 e Email EuroASASupport extensis com If you are evaluating a demo copy of the product please contact your sales representative for assistance 63 Index A ABC 123 preview 36 activating a family or single font 32 activating a font in a floating preview 37 activating a set 32 activating fonts 32 in the Font Panel 46 permanently 32 temporarily 32 activation status 33 Activity Viewer 13 adding a custom attribute 28 adding Font Sense to documents 52 adding fonts 21 as sets 22 in place 18 22 temporarily 22 Adobe applications collecting fonts from 25 creating a document set 44 installing plug ins 42 plug in preferences 45 required for Font Panel 8 selecting a library 43 using Google Fonts 35 Adobe Photoshop tips 48 Application Sets 28 applying fonts using the Font Panel 47 arranging columns 29 attributes 28 Attributes tab 15 auto activated fonts deactivating 44 auto activating families 45 auto activation Font Sense and 42 global 33 introduction 42 preferences 45 a
19. e You can selecta library or one or more sets in the Library pane then activate all the fonts in the selection e You can select one or more families and or one or more individual fonts in the Fonts pane then activate the selected fonts e You cannot select in both the Library and Fonts panes to activate fonts Types of activation e To activate fonts permanently click the O button in the toolbar Permanently activated fonts will be activated whenever you log in to your computer e To activate fonts temporarily click the button in the toolbar Temporarily activated fonts will only be available until you log out or shut down your computer Deactivating fonts To deactivate a selected font family or set e Click the O button on the toolbar e Choose File gt Deactivate e Press COMMAND K e Click in the Activation column to the left of a font family or set You can click in this column without first selecting fonts 32 Global auto activation Suitcase Fusion has the ability to automatically activate fonts when documents need them This is in addition to the plug in based automatic font activation Global auto activation activates a font based on the requested font s Postscript name only but is handy for applications such as text editors when it isn t as critical that you have the precise version of a font NOTE For precise auto activation be sure to install the appropriate plug in When using an application
20. for a period of thirty 30 days from the original date of purchase If you purchased this product directly from Extensis and if a defect occurs during the 30 day period you may return the disks to Extensis for a free replacement All products submitted for replacement must be registered with Extensis before replacement Extensis products purchased from resellers are warranted by the reseller and are covered by the reseller s return policy This warranty is limited to replacement and shall not encompass any other damages including but not limited to loss of profit and special incidental or other similar claims This software is provided on an as is basis Except for the express warranty set forth above Extensis makes no other warranties either explicit or implied regarding the enclosed software s quality performance merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Suitcase Fusion 5 16 2 0 Contents BEEE EA a ET R E E E E E E E EEE E 5 Overview of Desktop Font Management icsi ea e a EE Eaa Ea ET aah 6 Fonts and tonta 6 A 9 6 Unemnpeennereme E errr tener ere rnere ren rae y ere er nreT ener eT ery ror es att T ere rene rere reer renee reer eT erry eer erry rer errr rere ner rey 6 Installing or Upgrading to sultease FUSION ii alos 8 ACEH a GIB alo UE OW calG al erate 8 Disabling other font VA Oltra a A Geet adyhiieiten tebe caundatedaesdaecmenactes 8 MAMA tre meter pe merrier aren Smtr net ener se Nt N ST pene era pr oer er n
21. in the background I4 The Details Panel Attributes Fontspiration O GiddyupStd PostScript Name 4 Giddyupstd Version 2 090 Type YU OpenType FS Family Y Giddyup Std Foundry YU Adobe Systems Font Sense 613631739 Classification Ornamental Styles 4 None Keywords None Libraries Font Library The Details Panel has three tabs Info Attributes and Fontspiration Click a tab to display relevant information about the selection The Info tab The Info tab includes a pop up menu at the top if you have chosen multiple items libraries sets or fonts you can choose a different item from the menu to display its info The information displayed depends on what is selected e Library The Info tab displays the library s icon name type and font count e Set The Info tab displays the set s icon name and font count e WebINK font The Info tab displays the WebINK font icon the font s PostScript name the font s menu name class width weight best minimum text size tags font download size by subset and supported languages e Desktop or Google font The Info tab displays the font s icon name PostScript name version type family foundry Font Sense ID class applied styles applied keywords and the libraries that include the font To perform a search based on a specific criterion click one of the a icons in the Info tab For example to find al
22. it is used in your workflow Most fonts come with pre defined attributes such as Foundry you can modify existing attributes and add new ones to aid in the way you organize and use fonts Attributes are applied to fonts so they are consistent through all sets and libraries Changing attributes does not affect the actual font file only how its properties are displayed in Suitcase Fusion Available attributes are e Classification A font s Classification sometimes shortened to Class describes its general look in historic terms Each font can have only one classification Suitcase Fusion assigns a classification when you add a font but since this is a subjective assignment you can change it e Foundry The name of the company that licensed the font to you Each font can have only one foundry assigned Suitcase Fusion attempts to extract this information from the font but you can modify it if necessary e Keywords Keywords are words or short phrases that you assign to a font These can be anything you need to help organize and find fonts such as client or project information or even a rating Fonts can have multiple keywords e Styles Styles are descriptions of typographic embellishments applied to a font such as bold or italic Suitcase Fusion assigns styles to fonts as you add them usually based on information in the font name Sometimes you may disagree with a style assignment so you can change them Fonts can have multiple
23. necessarily distinguish it using the Layers panel To enable layer auto select select the Move tool check Auto Select in the options bar then choose Layer from the Auto Select pop up menu TT Be v Auto Select Y Group The Character panel The Character panel lets you change font style size color and many other type properties either for selected text or for an entire type layer When using the Character panel in conjunction with the Extensis Font Panel you gain full control over type options in Photoshop Choose Window gt Character to display the Character panel 48 Maintenance Computers are like cars if you provide proper maintenance the likelihood of an unexpected breakdown can be greatly reduced For keeping your computer running in peak condition you should follow some basic maintenance procedures e Keep your operating system and software up to date e Keep your computer secure both physically and digitally e Run maintenance utilities regularly e Make sure the computer has plenty of airflow to keep it from overheating e Keep your computing environment clean to avoid getting dust and dirt in your computer Even the best maintained cars and computers can still have a breakdown Parts wear out and accidents happen If your car breaks down and you can t drive it you can rent a replacement If your computer breaks down you can t rent new data As part of your computer maintenance plan you
24. not for WebINK fonts a QuickComp QuickComp provides a variety of templates that allow you to preview multiple fonts in a design like environment You can apply fonts to the composition sections then create a font set and print the composition NOTE Many of the QuickComp templates are designed as full page layouts It will be easier to work with QuickComp if you maximize the Suitcase Fusion window To use QuickComp 1 Choose QuickComp from the Preview Type pop up menu 2 Click a template in the Template Gallery to open it 3 Click a type block then select a font to apply to the block e To change type size for a selected block use the size controls at the bottom right e To change the template colors use the Text and Background color pickers To reset the colors to the defaults click e To print your QuickComp choose Print from the tools menu The printout includes a page summarizing the selected fonts e To create a set with the fonts used in your QuickComp choose New Set from the tools menu Web View Use Web View to view an existing website or HTML page with fonts from your system or from the WebINK library To preview a website in Suitcase Fusion 1 Ifyou want to preview WebINK fonts choose File gt Connect to WebINK and enter your username and password 2 Choose Web View from the Preview Type pop up menu 3 Enter the address of the website or specific page that you want to preview in the address bar a
25. of your search as a smart set which updates to display all the matching fonts in the library You can also identify specific fonts as favorites so even if they aren t related in any other way you can quickly find the fonts you like best Families A font family is a group of related fonts with a similar design that were intended to be used together When Suitcase Fusion groups fonts into a family it uses the following criteria e Name Fonts with the same family name e Foundry Fonts are from the same foundry Therefore a Bauhaus font from Bitstream will be placed in a different family than a Bauhaus font from Monotype e Type Fonts are the same type Therefore a PostScript Helvetica font will be placed in a different family from a TrueType Helvetica font These criteria often produce multiple families with the same name such as a TrueType Times from Apple and PostScript Times from Adobe To tell the difference between families look at the Type and Foundry columns In addition if the current library has two different versions of a font with the same name foundry and kind they will be placed in the same family For example you might have two different versions of Garamond Book in the Garamond family Grouping fonts by family Suitcase Fusion can display fonts individually in the Fonts pane but by default it groups fonts by typeface family You can toggle family grouping on and off by choosing View gt Group Fonts by Fami
26. over lower versions NOTE Although it s convenient to have Suitcase Fusion select fonts for you keep in mind that the best font is not always the correct font This is particularly true when you consider that Suitcase Fusion s first preference is for active fonts over inactive fonts For example if you keep a TrueType version of Helvetica permanently active and a document requires a PostScript version of Helvetica Suitcase Fusion will opt for the active TrueType version even if you have other PostScript versions of Helvetica Checking document fonts Any time you want to ensure that all the fonts used in a document are active you can use the Check Document Fonts command For example if you drag an InDesign snippet onto a page or update a QuarkXPress composition zone the fonts used in those items may not be active Or if you apply a previously unused style sheet to text the font specified in it may not be active To check document fonts e In Adobe Photoshop choose File gt Automate gt Extensis then click Check Document Fonts e In Adobe Illustrator InDesign or InCopy choose Type gt Suitcase Fusion gt Check Document Fonts e In QuarkXPress choose Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion gt Check Document Fonts Deactivating auto activated fonts When you quit an application any fonts that were auto activated by a plug in for that application are deactivated You can change this so auto activated fonts are deactivated when
27. s content without being charged for font usage When your website is complete switch the project to Production mode and the WebINK fonts will be served to all visitors to your site Using a local Web server You can set up a Web server on your computer or your network and add it to your project You can then develop websites and serve them on your local server as a way to test them before deploying them live on the Internet Transferring a project Once you have developed and deployed a working website with WebINK fonts you can easily transfer the project to a third party for regular billing Getting updates Periodically Extensis updates Suitcase Fusion to maintain compatibility with operating system updates add new features and fix any problematic issues Suitcase Fusion contains an automatic update feature that downloads and installs the newest components including auto activation plug ins e To enable automatic updates choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences and check the box labeled Check for updates automatically e To check for updates manually choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Check for Updates Uninstalling Suitcase Fusion 5 Before you uninstall Suitcase Fusion 5 you may want to make a backup copy of your font vault See Backing up your Font Vault on page 49 To remove Suitcase Fusion from your Mac You can download an application that will completely uninstall Suitcase Fusion 5 and all its support files Visit the Extensis
28. s plug in it is not necessary to add the application to the Global Auto Activation list To enable global auto activation for an application 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 In the Global Auto Activation Options area enable the Auto activate fonts for the following applications option 3 Click the t add button navigate to the application that you want to add then click Open You can also drag the application icon from the Finder into the global auto activation list 4 Click OK to accept the new preferences To disable global auto activation for a specific application 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Inthe Global Auto Activation Options area select the application name and click the remove button 3 Click OK to accept the new preferences Activation status To determine the status of a font family or set look at the Activation column O A blue dot means all the fonts are active temporarily O A green dot means all the fonts are active permanently A hollow dot means some of the fonts in a family or set are active and some are inactive lt gt A blue diamond means fonts were automatically activated by a plug in or globally activated for selected applications 9 A box around the activation icon means that the font was added to Suitcase Fusion temporarily Q A red dot with a question mark indicates that the font was added in place and can no longer be located by Suitcase Fusion Updat
29. styles assigned and you can create your own to suit your needs Working with attributes e To show the Attributes click the Attributes tab at the top of the Details Panel e To view a specific set of attributes choose it from the pop up menu at the top of the Attributes tab e To assign or unassign a specific attribute select one or more fonts then check or uncheck the box for the desired attribute e To add a custom attribute click the button at the bottom of the Attributes tab then enter a name for the attribute e To remove an attribute select it in the list and click the button at the bottom of the Attributes tab You cannot remove built in attributes e To edit an attribute name double click its entry in the list You cannot edit built in attributes e To restore a font s original attributes select the font then click the wy ion at the bottom of the Attributes tab 28 Sorting fonts The Fonts pane can display a column of font information for each font that includes Type Foundry Class Family Version Font Sense number Date Added Menu Name and Library By default Suitcase Fusion displays a column for Type Foundry Class Family Version and Library You can display any combination of columns that is useful to you arrange the columns so you can easily see the information you need and sort fonts according to any column e Display Columns Choose from the View gt Columns menu or right click a column hea
30. to export To export all sets in a library select the library 2 Choose File gt Export Sets 3 Type a name for the SDF file and click Export Importing a set creates new sets in the selected library from the SDF file Suitcase Fusion will not overwrite your current sets If you have existing sets with the same name Suitcase Fusion creates a new set with the same name upon import So importing the same SDF multiple times into a library creates duplicate sets with the same names To import a set definition file 1 In the Libraries pane select the library that you want to import sets into 2 Choose File gt Import Sets 3 Navigate to the SDF file and click Import aa Application Sets An Application Set is a set of fonts that will be activated temporarily when you launch an application NOTE You should not use Application Sets for applications that have an auto activation plug in The plug in uses Extensis Font Sense technology to ensure that the precise font used in a document will be activated whereas the Application Set cannot override a font with the same name that is already active To create an Application Set do one of the following e Choose File gt New Application Set then select the desired application e Select an existing static set choose File gt Convert to Application Set then select the desired application Font attributes A font s attributes are pieces of information about the font especially as
31. type foundries You can browse and preview the fonts online or through Suitcase Fusion Suitcase Fusion also allows you to preview your website or pages under development with WebINK fonts in any text elements on your page 4 Generate the code for your project The WebINK website delivers a single line of code to add to your style sheet or individual web pages 5 Add the code to your website Your website will be updated immediately Using WebINK fonts In Suitcase Fusion WebINK fonts are not like desktop fonts Since WebINK fonts are hosted for websites you can t activate or deactivate them collect them or use them in desktop applications with the exception of using them within Photoshop for previewing and for comps see The Extensis Font Panel on page 46 You can preview WebINK fonts using any of Suitcase Fusion s Preview tools You can use Web View to load your own website and temporarily apply WebINK fonts to help you choose new fonts for your website For details on using Web View see Web View on page 38 34 Using Google Fonts Google Fonts are free open source fonts for use with the Google Fonts API https developers google com fonts docs getting_started Suitcase Fusion 5 brings these fonts to your desktop for use in all your applications Enabling or disabling Google Fonts Google Fonts are available in Suitcase Fusion 5 and from the Extensis Font Panel in Adobe Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign CS5 and late
32. website http www extensis com support product support suitcase fusion 5 You can also follow the steps below to manually remove the Suitcase Fusion 5 application 1 Quit all other running programs With Suitcase Fusion 5 running choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Manage Plug ins Uncheck all the checked boxes to deactivate all auto activation plug ins Click Done Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window Click Stop FMCore In the warning dialog click Stop FMCore Suitcase Fusion 5 will exit a or ee e wW N pa Open the Applications folder and drag Suitcase Fusion 5 to the Trash 9 Empty the Trash 20 Adding Removing and Collecting Fonts Adding removing and collecting work as follows e You add fonts to the selected library You cannot add fonts to the System Fonts library using Suitcase Fusion e You can add fonts individually or as named sets Suitcase Fusion lets you drag and drop fonts or browse to a specific location to add fonts e Suitcase Fusion does not allow any orphan font files and it attempts to repair any font corruption issues e You can remove fonts from sets or delete them entirely from Suitcase Fusion e When you delete a font that is contained in the Font Vault it is deleted entirely To preserve a copy of the original font file be sure to have a backup copy or collect the font for output before deleting the file e When you delete a fo
33. 3 Fonts pane 13 showing and hiding 12 Fontspiration tab 15 foundry 28 G global auto activation 33 Glyph View 40 gold star See favorites Google Fonts 35 enabling and disabling 35 updating 35 using in Font Panel 47 graphics fonts in 45 Group Fonts by Family 26 H hide columns 29 HTML preview 38 I importing sets 27 Info pane what s new 12 Info tab 15 installing plug ins 42 installing Suitcase Fusion 8 K keywords 28 L layout view See QuickComp libraries 21 and plug ins 43 choosing in design application 43 creating new 21 external 34 Libraries pane 13 locate missing fonts 24 locked fonts 17 M Macintosh system fonts 17 Main window 12 maintaining Suitcase Fusion 49 maintaining your computer 49 menus updating 33 metadata 42 missing fonts 24 preference setting for best match 45 troubleshooting 43 mock up view See QuickComp modifying type in Adobe applications 48 moving columns 29 65 moving fonts between sets 27 N New Application Set 28 new features 11 new Font Vault 50 New Library 21 New Set 27 New Set from Selection 27 New Smart Set 30 O organizing fonts 26 original attributes restoring 28 overriding system fonts 17 P Paragraph preview 36 permanent activation 32 Photoshop tips 48 plug ins 42 installing 42 preferences 45 preview colors 36 preview options 36 preview te
34. Adobe even though many fonts in the Adobe library were created by other design houses zG global auto activation The ability to automatically activate a font used in a document based on font information stored in the document by the application Global auto activation uses the font s PostScript name to determine which font to activate This is not as accurate as using an auto activation plug in but is useful for applications where it isn t critical to have the precise version of a font If an auto activation plug in is available you should use it instead of global auto activation Global auto activation is available in Suitcase Fusion for Macintosh e oa glyph The visual presentation of a character A single character such as the capital letter A can have different glyphs in different fonts Glyphs do not need to represent characters used for text as seen in the multitude of dingbats fonts available and in some non Latin writing systems a single character can be represented by multiple glyphs within a single font Western fonts with OpenType features can include multiple glyphs for a single character such as capital A capital A with a swash and a small cap capital A H hinting Instructions or information added to an outline font to make it print and display more consistently and legibly at small sizes Ko kerning adjustment to the spacing between a pair of characters in a line of text to make the spaci
35. Fusion and Universal Type Client It is a background application that activates and deactivates fonts even when your font manager is not running font manager A computer application that allows you to organize activate and deactivate fonts quickly and easily font panel Part of the Extensis Suitcase Fusion plug in for Adobe Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign The Font Panel allows you to manually activate fonts within a document even though Suitcase Fusion is not running In Photoshop the Font Panel gives you access to WebINK or Google Fonts to use in website mockups Font Sense The patented font identification technology from Extensis The auto activation plug ins included with Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client use Font Sense to ensure that the exactly the correct font is activated when it is required by a document font snapshot A preview of a font saved as a PNG file To create a snapshot drag the snapshot icon from the preview title bar to the desktop Font Vault The location where Suitcase Fusion or Universal Type Server stores physical font files Only complete and non corrupt fonts are allowed in this secure location foundry A company that designs or distributes fonts In Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server the foundry is a font attribute indicating the company listed in the font copyright notice or vendor ID field not necessarily the font designer For example if you license fonts from Adobe the foundry is listed as
36. Google Fonts Google Fonts are available in Adobe Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign CS5 and later You can enable Google Fonts by choosing Google from the pop up menu of available font libraries If the Google Fonts are not displayed click the Enable button WebINK fonts To use WebINK fonts within your Photoshop documents you must log in to your WebINK account If you have already connected to WebINK from within Suitcase Fusion 5 the Extensis Font Panel will automatically connect The Font Panel will show the WebINK login screen if it does not have a connection e To connect enter your WebINK account name and password then click Connect e To create a WebINK account click Create an Account below the Connect button e To disconnect from WebINK choose Disconnect from WebINK from the Extensis Font Panel s flyout menu or choose File gt Disconnect from WebINK within Suitcase Fusion 5 Typekit fonts You can use Typekit fonts from the Extensis Font Panel by choosing Typekit from the pop up menu of available libraries You can add Typekit fonts to your font digests If you remove a Typekit font from your desktop it will also be removed from your font digests Applying a font In Adobe Photoshop you can apply fonts from the Extensis Font Panel to individual type layers In InDesign and Illustrator you can apply a font to a text block or selected text To apply a font from the Extensis Font Panel 1 Open the Extensis Font Panel
37. NK the font rental service from Extensis the Extensis Font Panel and Web View A reminder about desktop font management Although your primary focus is the web and web fonts most designers will benefit from using the desktop font management features of Suitcase Fusion Suitcase Fusion can e Free system resources so your computer and other applications work better e Eliminate damaged and duplicate fonts e Temporarily disable local fonts that match web fonts crucial for testing websites The Extensis Font Panel The Extensis Font Panel is a plug in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 or later including Creative Cloud This panel gives you access to thousands of specially licensed WebINK fonts Using this panel you can activate WebINK fonts from within Photoshop then use those fonts in your Photoshop comps and website mockups Web View Web View gives you the ability to preview any of thousands of fonts on your existing websites and during design and development 19 Working with projects WebINK groups websites and fonts into projects Each WebINK project links a set of fonts with a set of sites that use those fonts You can have as many projects as you need Projects can be placed in Developer mode until you are ready to start using their fonts live on your websites When a Project is in Developer mode WebINK will only serve those fonts to a limited number of unique visitors per day This allows you to develop and preview your website
38. QuickComp templates We ve added many new templates for tablets phones business documents websites and more For information on using QuickComp see QuickComp on page 38 Improved Mac interface We ve tweaked the layout a little bit and made some features more obvious and easier to access Fontspiration The Details Panel includes the new Fontspiration tab Fontspiration displays examples of WebINK fonts designed to inspire you to seek new and unique ways to use typography in your own projects Click an example to view that example in your Web browser and from there follow Fontspiration and view the thousands of typography examples gleaned from around the Web Other recent updates QuarkXPress 10 Suitcase Fusion includes an auto activation plug in for QuarkXPress 10 and can also clean font caches for QuarkXPress 10 See Installing plug ins on page 42 for information on how to install the new plug in See Font Auto Activation on page 42 for more information about auto activation in general See Cleaning font caches on page 51 for instructions on how to clean your system s font caches Typekit fonts With this release Suitcase Fusion can display Adobe Typekit fonts that you synchronize with your desktop Typekit fonts are synchronized and managed by the Creative Cloud application and Suitcase Fusion displays them as a separate library Suitcase Fusion works with Typekit fonts much the same as other desktop fonts they work with F
39. Windows or cross platform workgroup environments A server can run on either Mac OS X or Windows and server clients on both platforms For more information about server based font management or to download a demo version please see the Extensis website http www extensis com font management server based font management KS Freelance graphic design Freelance graphic designers usually maintain a large collection of fonts to afford many different options when working with a variety of clients Taking advantage of several key features in Suitcase Fusion will help freelancers work with their fonts more efficiently Option 1 Using the Font Vault Add all of the fonts stored on your hard drive into the Font Vault This ensures that all your fonts are in one place making it easier to prevent duplicates and back up your font collection To use the Font Vault 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Enable the Copy added fonts into the vault option Once your fonts are in Suitcase Fusion you can use Suitcase Fusion to help you by removing unnecessary fonts For example you can use the Find dialog to display all of the potentially duplicate fonts with the same name and then review the fonts to determine if you can delete any of them You may have two versions of the same font and decide that you only need to keep one You will undoubtedly find fonts that you don t need NOTE Before you delete any fonts be sure that these particular f
40. a Missing Fonts dialog is displayed first make sure you have the appropriate library selected in the plug in If switching libraries doesn t solve the problem note the details about the missing fonts If a font is missing it may have not been added to Suitcase Fusion and thus can t be automatically activated Confirm that all of the necessary fonts have been added to Suitcase Fusion and open the document again Be Best fonts If you open documents that contain Font Sense metadata and the appropriate library is selected you should rarely encounter missing fonts In some cases however you may be missing the precise font If other fonts are available with the same name the plug ins can auto activate the best font for you to use provided that Pick best match when original is missing is enabled in Auto Activation Preferences as it is by default The best font will be used in the document and its information will be recorded in the Font Sense metadata for future use In determining the best font the plug ins prefer in order of importance e An active font over an inactive font except for active system fonts e The Type in the Font Sense metadata if that does not exist OpenType fonts are preferred over PostScript fonts and PostScript fonts are preferred over TrueType fonts e The Foundry in the Font Sense metadata if that does not exist Adobe is preferred over other foundries e Higher versions are preferred
41. also make adding fonts in place the default behavior To tell Suitcase Fusion to always add fonts in place 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Inthe Preferences dialog choose Add fonts leaving them in place When you add fonts they will not be moved to the Font Vault and Suitcase Fusion will activate and deactivate the fonts from their location on disk 22 Scanning fonts to add When you add fonts Suitcase Fusion performs a scanning process that finds examines and organizes all the fonts The amount of time the scan takes depends on a variety of factors including the number of fonts you re adding the speed of your computer and the media on which the fonts are stored e The progress of the scan displays in the Activity area across the bottom of Suitcase Fusion 5 A progress indicator gives information about the operation such as Searching for Fonts or Processing Files e Double click the Progress button to display the Activity Viewer which shows you the status of each font file being added You can also choose Window gt Activity Viewer or press COMMAND O0 the digit zero e Click the Stop button O in the Activity area at the bottom of Suitcase Fusion to stop adding the fonts The fonts that are already added will remain in Suitcase Fusion You can also click the Stop button for an individual font in the Activity Viewer Resolving problems When fonts are added to Suitcase Fusion the scanning process and the in
42. atical symbols The two most common extensions to ASCII WinANSI and MacRoman are used by default on Windows and Mac OS respectively These two systems have slightly different extended characters and identical extended characters may appear at different code points in each system See also code point attribute An identifying characteristic of a font Attributes can be inherent to the font or assigned by users Styles and keywords are examples of font attributes auto activation Font activation performed automatically by an application plug in when a document using a font is opened Extensis provides auto activation plug ins for popular design applications B baseline The straight line that the bottoms of characters rest on and that descenders extend below See also descender leading bitmap font A font in which each character is a matrix or bitmap of pixels representing the glyph for a single face style weight and size Bitmap fonts are designed for a specific output resolution typically a screen resolution Bitmap fonts do not scale well since their size is fixed Compare with outline font blacklist n A list of fonts that are suspected to be corrupt v To add a font to such a list Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client mark blacklisted fonts with a red dot in the Activation column Bonjour Apple Inc s zero configuration networking discovery protocol Bonjour enables users to easily locate Universal Type Server on a n
43. case Fusion 5 includes the Extensis Font Panel for Adobe Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign CS5 and later including Creative Cloud providing direct access to your Suitcase Fusion Typekit and Google Font libraries The Font Panel offers a convenient way to select and activate your fonts directly within your creative applications In Adobe Photoshop you also have access to WebINK fonts for your client approval and design comps NOTE The Extensis Font Panel uses Adobe Flash Visit the Adobe website http get adobe com flashplayer to download the latest version of Flash Player Opening the Font Panel To open the Extensis Font Panel choose Window gt Extensions gt Extensis in Adobe Photoshop Illustrator or InDesign CS5 and later including Creative Cloud The drop down menu at the top of the panel allows you to display your Suitcase Fusion Fonts or Google Fonts in the panel In Photoshop you can also choose to display WebINK fonts You can move collapse or group the Extensis Font Panel just like you do other panels within Adobe applications Activating and deactivating fonts When you select a font in the Font Panel itis activated If you apply a font from the Font Panel to text in your document then save the document Font Sense data for that font will be saved with the document and that font will be automatically activated the next time you open the document Font Sense data will only be saved if you haven t disabled
44. ch library you can group fonts into sets for specific clients jobs applications or templates An ad agency for example might create sets for client names and job numbers while a magazine publisher might create sets for each article Sets contain references to the original font so placing a font into a set does not copy or in any way increase the size of your font library Sets are shown in the Libraries pane Sets can contain one or many fonts as well as other nested sets You can create as many sets as you need place sets within other sets and place the same font in more than one set Once fonts are in a set you can manipulate the fonts as one unit For example you can activate all the fonts deactivate all the fonts or collect all the fonts for delivery to a service bureau e To create a new set choose File gt New Set and type a name for the set e To create a new set from selected fonts select fonts in the Fonts or Previews pane then choose File gt New Set from Selection e To create a new set from a folder of fonts drag the folder to a library or set in the Libraries pane The fonts are added to your library and to a new set with the same name as the folder e To add fonts to a set select fonts and drag them to the set in the Libraries pane e To add fonts from the desktop to a set drag them to the set in the Libraries pane This adds them to both the library and the set at the same time e To remove fonts from a s
45. cify find criteria the Fonts pane updates to display only fonts in the selected library that match the criteria When you finish finding fonts click the arrow in the upper right corner to hide the Find tools 29 QuickFind QuickFind is the fastest way to locate a font Select a library or set then click in the QuickFind field and starting typing The Fonts pane automatically updates to show fonts or families that contain the characters you enter By default QuickFind searches a number of font properties to find a match including PostScript name foundry family keywords classification and so forth To narrow the parameters of your QuickFind search to a single font property click the magnifying glass icon in the QuickFind field and select an option from the menu Click the gt clear button in the QuickFind field to clear the search and display all fonts and families in the selected library or set again NOTE If you do not see the QuickFind tool you may need to choose View gt Show Hide Toolbar If your toolbar is showing and you still cannot see the QuickFind tool choose View gt Customize Toolbar and then drag the QuickFind field back to the toolbar QuickMatch QuickMatch allows you to find fonts in your local libraries and if you are connected to the WebINK service in the WebINK Library To use QuickMatch 1 Select a font either locally or in the WebINK Library that you want to match 2 Select any preview type e
46. cript font typeface One or more fonts in a single coordinated style Arial is a typeface while Arial Regular and Arial Black Italic are fonts See also font family U Universal Type Core See Font Management Core V vault See Font Vault vector font See outline font 61 W waterfall A type of font preview available in Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client The waterfall preview shows a sample of text in a selected point size and also 1 3 smaller and 50 larger web font A font that can be used within a served web page The web font is hosted on a web server not necessarily the same as the web page and downloaded to the visitor s computer for use by the browser Web fonts allow rich typography to be easily incorporated into websites WebINK The web font rental service available from Extensis WebINK hosts thousands of fonts that can be used in web pages and serves the correct format to each browser Tools for using WebINK are available from the WebINK com website and also within Suitcase Fusion weight The relative thickness of character strokes in a font Weight is usually given using terms such as thin light bold and heavy In CSS the font weight parameter is specified as a value from 100 thinnest to 900 thickest Weight descriptions are often omitted from font names within single weight families width The horizontal space occupied by a character Different fonts in the same family may a
47. ctivate individual font faces rather than all the fonts in entire typeface families For example if a document requires Minion Bold a plug in would activate only Minion Bold not the entire Minion typeface family You can however choose to activate entire families by enabling the Activate entire font families plug in preference This can be helpful if for example you decide to apply bold or italics to body text those instances of the base font will already be active Closing open fonts You can specify when auto activated fonts are deactivated when you quit the application or when you close the document By default the plug ins deactivate fonts when you quit an application To change this setting click an option in the Close opened fonts area e When application quits Quitting the design application deactivates all the fonts that were auto activated since the last time you launched the application This is the default setting e On document close Closing the document deactivates auto activated fonts when you close a document provided the fonts aren t required by other open documents Click this option if you need to keep a minimum of fonts active and if most of your documents use different fonts Because Suitcase Fusion scans each document as you close it this setting can get tedious if you open and close documents often NOTE Changes to this setting do not apply to already open documents 45 The Extensis Font Panel Suit
48. ding to enable or disable columns of font information If necessary scroll to the right or expand the Suitcase Fusion window to see all the columns e Arrange Columns Drag the column headings such as Type or Version to change the order of columns To adjust the width of a column drag the separator bar between the column headings Raras Enarele y ine E A Pacifica image Dub Graphics meri a oh Fo dls ide Seer maripi E E ME hiom im Td o Tybene ent ype F b a TE Brom See End joe Sr ent epee EE E Furura Ag oi er Erin Fa Magen The Fora Bure aii mirip e Sort By Column Click a column head to sort fonts or families according to that information For example click Class to sort alphabetically by classification NOTE Some columns of information are only displayed for certain libraries For example the Design Enabled column which tells if a WebINK font can be used within Photoshop will only be displayed if the WebINK library or a WebINK project is selected Finding fonts If you need to search for fonts by more than name the Find controls give you additional options With this feature you can search for fonts by any combination of attributes such as name foundry keywords style type classification and version When you specify find criteria you specify the criteria such as foundry a qualifier for each criteria such as matches and a value for each criteria such as Adobe for a foundry Your find can i
49. e e represents the diphthong ae and has actually been promoted to the status of a letter character in some alphabets In the Old English alphabet the letter s name was ash M metadata Data about data Metadata is information about the content of a file Font metadata includes such information as foundry and copyright information Font Sense is stored as metadata in the body of a design document O offline mode A mode for using Universal Type Client when not connected to the Universal Type Server such as on a laptop with no connection to the main network When working in offline mode you only have access to fonts that are in your font cache Any fonts not available for use are displayed in red 58 OpenType An outline font format defined by Adobe and Microsoft based on the Windows version of TrueType OpenType fonts can contain either TrueType or PostScript outlines in a single font file that can be used on either Windows or Macintosh systems with consistent results OpenType fonts are based on Unicode so a single font can contain thousands of glyphs This enables extensive language support and also allows ligatures swashes true small caps and other alternate glyphs to be built into each font outline font An outline font is a set of instructions that describe how to draw each glyph in the font Outline fonts can be scaled up to virtually any size for any type of device without loss of quality O
50. e fonts with the Glyph View feature e Keep sets of specialty fonts available at your fingertips without the inconvenience of resorting to a manufacturer s CD or DVD to search for that perfect font for a new project Add and activate fonts as you need them e Have Suitcase Fusion intelligently activate and deactivate fonts automatically when you open and close Adobe Photoshop InDesign Illustrator InCopy and QuarkXPress documents e Access fonts conveniently turning them on only when you need them then turning them off as soon as you re finished with them freeing system memory for other uses Rest assured that you re covered e Automatically check your fonts for corruption keeping problematic fonts out of your workflow e With Font Sense data automatically extracted from every font added auto activating the exact font is a breeze e Meet the demands of complex workflows with features such as font libraries and a portable Font Vault Overview of Desktop Font Management A font manager s main purpose is to make fonts available when they are needed and remove them from use when you are done with them When a font is available for use it is called an active font and the process of making it available is called activation When the font is removed from availability it is deactivated This is the major feature of a font manager and other capabilities revolve around the notion of activating and deactivating or managing fonts
51. e used for export See collect for output 56 Fe face One style width and weight of a font family typeface This term is often used interchangeably with font Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client allow you to activate a single face in a family family See font family font A complete set of characters from a font family in one weight width and style Times New Roman Italic is a font as is Garamond Semibold See also face typeface Font Book A native OS X application that provides basic font management It does not automatically activate and deactivate fonts as needed and cannot provide activation capabilities required by designers using multiple versions of the same font font cache A storage location where an application or the operating system holds copies of frequently used fonts so they can be loaded quickly Because font caches can become corrupted and cause problems Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client can clean the font caches on your Macintosh font family A collection of related fonts that were designed and intended to be used together Fonts in a family will vary in weight style or width but not in overall design For ease of navigation and organization Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client can display fonts in family groups See also typeface font file Any file containing one or more fonts that the computer can display directly Font Management Core An application installed with Suitcase
52. ects on multiple layers within a document The Layers panel lets you e Quickly identify the selected layer the selected layer is highlighted in the panel e Select a different layer by clicking on it in the panel e Ensure that the selected layer is a Type layer Type layers have the icon T in the panel To display the Layers panel choose Window gt Layers Transform controls While typically used to reshape or resize objects the Transform controls in Photoshop also show you the boundaries of an object which can sometimes be difficult to determine with text blocks The Transform controls appear as a thin black line surrounding the object with resize handles and a transform reference point To show the Transform controls select the Move tool he then check Show Transform Controls in the options bar NOTE If you use the Transform controls in Photoshop to resize a text block the text will be resized to match the new proportions of the box If you instead want to just resize the text box itself choose the Type tool click within the box and use the controls to resize the text box without changing the size or shape of the text Layer auto select By default clicking within the Photoshop document window has no effect on which layer is selected You can change this behavior so that when you click on an object with the Move tool that object s layer is selected This makes it easy to select a layer visually when you can t
53. ensis com downloads documents server based font management best practices guide Learn how to assess your needs create an effective font licensing and reporting strategy and more Web sites Adobe Fonts Type topics http www adobe com type topics A wealth of documents references and tips about type CreativePro http creativepro com Articles forums and blogs for creatives Topic areas include Business Fonts Graphics Hardware Photography Print and Web Mobile Design Observer http designobserver com Articles and commentary on design culture and change Digital Arts http www digitalartsonline co uk This site covers graphic design 3D animation video effects and web and interactive design The Graphic Mac http www thegraphicmac com Provides design resources and Adobe Creative Suite and Mac OS X tips Graphics com http www graphics com Articles tutorials downloads news and other resources for graphic creatives HOW http www howdesign com HOW started as and continues as a print magazine but also hosts design competitions HOW U for online design courses and more I Love Typography http ilovetypography com John Boardley s site that aims to bring typography to the masses MacNN http www macnn com The Macintosh News Network includes news reviews discussions tips troubleshooting and links for Mac and iOS users MacUser http www macuser co uk The venerable print ma
54. ental service from Extensis allows you to choose fonts from dozens of foundries to use on your websites Fonts are hosted on WebINK servers and delivered to browsers when they are needed Your web development workflow gets more flexible with WebINK and Suitcase Fusion 5 e Use the WebINK website to manage your account and use online tools to browse fonts and preview live web pages with WebINK fonts e Use Suitcase Fusion to preview fonts and add them to projects and preview live web pages or those still under development using any of the WebINK fonts e Use Adobe Photoshop to create mockups of web content using specially licensed WebINK fonts You set up an account and one or more projects on the WebINK website then you can use Suitcase Fusion to work with your WebINK projects preview fonts test them in web pages create mockups in Photoshop and add WebINK fonts to or remove them from your project Here are the basic steps you need to follow in order to use the WebINK service 1 Create a WebINK account All you need is an email address You can create an account from the WebINK website http www webink com 2 Create a WebINK project and add sites to it A project identifies the fonts you want to use and the sites you want to use those fonts on Go to your Type Drawer page on the WebINK site to manage projects 3 Find fonts for your site and add them to the project The WebINK Library contains thousands of high quality fonts from major
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56. erences Disable Alert me if system fonts change e w N p Close the Preferences window and quit Font Book 10 Introducing Suitcase Fusion Suitcase Fusion is a powerful font management utility that gives you total and precise control over all of the fonts on your system all while making your work with fonts faster and easier than ever before Suitcase Fusion allows you to locate and activate fonts only when you need them saving valuable system resources and time Suitcase Fusion can automatically activate fonts for documents through auto activation plug ins for popular design applications as well as on a system wide level With Suitcase Fusion you ll never need to be concerned that a corrupt font might interrupt your workflow Potential problems are diagnosed and repairs are automatically applied when a font is added The Extensis Font Panel for Adobe design applications helps you organize and activate fonts from within your Adobe applications without requiring you to switch to Suitcase Fusion saving you time and system resources Suitcase Fusion is the industrial strength font management application for all creative professionals Powered by the Font Management Core you will always have the font you need when you need it What s new New features in Suitcase Fusion 5 v16 2 For details about the latest release please see the Release Notes http www extensis com downloads release notes suitcase fusion 5 mac More
57. es to fonts added in place from your hard disk or other locations Since you can use more than one Font Vault it is possible to entirely change how fonts are organized in Suitcase Fusion and used on your system just by switching to a new Font Vault Using the Font Vault To tell Suitcase Fusion to add fonts to the Font Vault 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 In the Preferences dialog enable the Copy added fonts to the vault option When you first install Suitcase Fusion this option is enabled by default The Font Vault for storing fonts In all likelihood you have fonts spread out over your entire computer network and even on many external CDs DVDs and hard disks The Font Vault is a secure location on your hard disk where Suitcase Fusion can store and automatically organize your fonts Fonts are secured so that you won t accidentally delete or possibly change a font You can easily add delete activate preview and copy fonts that are stored in the Font Vault Font Vault benefits The Font Vault has many benefits including e Suitcase Fusion does not allow true duplicate fonts into the Font Vault This makes managing your fonts much easier and minimizes storage needs e The Font Vault is secure so you can t accidentally delete an important font file e Fonts are automatically separated into font faces so you only activate the font faces you need e With your font files stored in the Font Vault you can easil
58. et click the set select the fonts to remove then choose Edit gt Delete from Set Removing fonts from a set does not remove them from the library e To rename a set double click the set name and type a new name e To move fonts from one set to another select the fonts in the first set and drag them to the second e To copy fonts from one set to another select the fonts in the first set hold down the OPTION key and drag the fonts to the second set e To copy a set from one library to another drag the set from the first library to the second library Fonts are copied to the second library and the original set is not changed e To delete a set select the set and choose Edit gt Delete Set Deleting a set does not remove fonts in the set from the library NOTE You can also create a set consisting of all the fonts in an open design document see Creating a set from an open document on page 44 Exporting and importing sets As a convenience Suitcase Fusion allows you to export selected sets in a set definition file SDF SDF files contain information about your set including the set names as well as the Font Sense IDs of the fonts contained within the set SDF files do not include the actual font files Exporting a set can be handy to share your set organization with other users or as a backup method in case you inadvertently delete one or more sets To export a set definition file 1 In the Libraries pane select one or more sets
59. etwork The Type Server s Bonjour name can be set using the Server Administration application bullet A dot or other character placed at the left of each item in a list Bullets identify list items as separate but related concepts Bb Cs cache A storage location managed by an application or operating system where frequently used data is stored for faster access Universal Type Client caches font files on your computer for use when working offline See also font cache character A single letter punctuation mark number space or any other object or symbol that can be assigned to a code point in a font Compare with glyph classification A method of categorizing fonts that indicates specific design attributes of the font Common classes are serif sans serif script and ornamental Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server automatically assign a classification to font families that they already have information about but you can change the assigned class and add classification information to unrecognized fonts code point Any of the numerical values that exist in a character set For the 7 bit ASCII set the possible code points are in the range o 127 In Unicode there are 1 114 112 code points in the range O 10FFFF hex collect for output Gather all fonts used in a document or project This is how Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client allow you to export fonts so they can for example be delivered with a document t
60. f an action or command If you don t want to be warned about that specific action again you can click a checkbox to disable the warning in the future To restore all warnings that you have previously disabled 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Click Restore 3 Click OK BL Adding Font Sense to existing documents Font Sense is designed to ensure that the precise fonts used in a document are auto activated each time the document is opened If you use Font Sense consistently and make the appropriate fonts available to other users you should never encounter missing fonts font conflicts or confusion regarding multiple versions of the same font Before you start using the auto activation plug ins existing documents will not have Font Sense information in them If you receive many documents and fonts from other sources it is worth your time to save Font Sense data within your documents To do this 1 Set up or designate a preflight workstation to handle all documents to be updated NOTE The workstation should have a copy of Suitcase Fusion all the applications you support with the auto activation plug ins enabled QuarkXPress Photoshop Illustrator InDesign InCopy and Use Font Sense enabled in the Auto Activation Preferences for each application In Suitcase Fusion manually create or add a set containing only the document s fonts Activate only that set be sure that no other fonts are active thro
61. formation collected help you clean up your font library and make sure all your fonts are usable Suitcase Fusion does not allow orphan bitmap or orphan outline fonts so they are not an issue However corrupt fonts duplicate fonts and missing fonts may still cause problems Corrupt fonts Corrupt fonts can be the source of document problems as well as cause operating system issues Suitcase Fusion defines a corrupt font as any font for which the font resources cannot be opened appear to contain inconsistent information or have incorrect values in important fields of the font file resource Most of the time if a font is corrupt it cannot be repaired However there are certain types of minor problems that can be corrected and there are certain types of problems that can be safely ignored The scanning process identifies corrupt or problem fonts and depending on the type of problem Suitcase Fusion either fixes the problem and adds the font to the library or gives you the option to add the fonts in place If you choose to add any potentially corrupt fonts in place they are put into a new date stamped set named Problem Fonts so that you can review them and take appropriate action Adding potentially corrupt fonts in place does have risks Corrupt fonts may still not activate properly and may cause potential printing problems The ability to add corrupt fonts in place is only provided as a convenience if you are absolutely unable to obtain a
62. fresh copy of the font from your backups or from the font foundry It is highly recommended that you remove potentially corrupt fonts from your library as soon as it is no longer needed If you have added any corrupt fonts to Suitcase Fusion in place you might need to scan fonts in your library for corruption To scan fonts for corruption 1 Select a font set or library to scan for corrupt fonts 2 Choose File gt Check for Corruption 3 Any corrupt fonts are placed into a new set within the selected library aa Duplicate fonts In Suitcase Fusion a duplicate font is a font with the same Font Sense ID meaning the exact same name foundry type version number FOND ID kerning table and outline file size as another font There are no true duplicates stored in a Suitcase Fusion Font Vault This means that if you are storing all of your fonts in the Font Vault if you add a font that contains exactly the same font metrics it is not allowed into the vault If you are adding fonts in place you can add the same font from multiple locations and it is definitely possible to have the same font in Suitcase Fusion multiple times Since the criteria for duplicate fonts is so specific and fonts can only be added to the Font Vault once if you see several fonts with the same name in a library it s either because the fonts were added in place or that you have different versions of the same font For example you may have two versions
63. gazine is alive and well in the UK with a web site to match with news and reviews on Mac related topics Macworld http www macworld com General news and reviews about Apple its products and its markets net magazine http www netmagazine com A print and web based magazine for web designers and developers Print Magazine http www printmag com Print Magazine is oddly enough a print magazine that covers commercial social and environmental design Subscriptions are available in print and iPad versions and issues can be purchased in PDF format as well 53 Typographica http typographica org Reviews and commentary on type and type related books Typophile http www typophile com Discussions blogs a wiki and news stories about all things type related Web Designer http www webdesignermag co uk A leading authority for web creatives Web Designer covers cutting edge web tech like HTML5 CSS3 and jQuery Conferences Bo ATypI http www atypi org The Association Typographique Internationale is a worldwide organization dedicated to type and typography They sponsor multiple gatherings around the world throughout the year TypeCon http www typecon com Annual conference presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados oks Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S Lawson ISBN 13 978 0879233334 A comprehensive exploration of letter forms and their classifications The Elements of Typog
64. in that is compatible with the new version Stay up to date by using the Check for Updates feature of Suitcase Fusion 42 Plug ins and libraries The auto activation plug ins can be configured to activate fonts from either a single library or from all your libraries When you start an application that has a plug in installed you will be prompted to choose a library If you design documents with fonts from a single library you can specify just that library if you design with fonts from more than one library you should specify Al Libraries Your library selection works as follows e When you open a document the plug in activates fonts in the document from the selected library e Iffonts are reported as missing you may have the wrong library selected switch libraries and check the document s fonts e You can change libraries at any time even while a document is open and fonts are active To change library settings e In Adobe Photoshop choose File gt Automate gt Extensis to open the Extensis dialog then select a specific library or All Libraries from the Select Library pop up menu e In Adobe Illustrator InCopy or InDesign choose Type gt Suitcase Fusion gt Library then select a specific library or All Libraries e In QuarkXPress choose Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion gt Library then select a specific library or All Libraries Scanning documents for fonts When you open a document that contains Font Sense metadata
65. in the Fonts pane by right clicking the column header and choosing Location from the menu To locate and re link missing fonts 1 In the Fonts pane click to select a missing font 2 Choose Edit gt Locate Missing Font You can also right click a missing font and choose Locate Missing Font from the shortcut menu 3 Navigate to the missing font or to the directory where you want Suitcase Fusion to search for the missing font 4 To have Suitcase Fusion attempt to find and re link other missing fonts in the same location enable the Automatically search for other missing fonts in this location option 5 Click Select Font conflicts If you attempt to activate a font that conflicts with an already open font typically Suitcase Fusion deactivates the currently active font and activates the requested font instead You can control how Suitcase reacts to font conflicts by changing the settings in the Suitcase Fusion Preferences To tell Suitcase Fusion to warn you about font conflicts 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Enable the Notify if a Conflict Occurs option 3 Click OK With conflict notifications enabled when Suitcase Fusion attempts to activate a font that conflicts with a currently active font you will be presented with the option to either e Activate the requested font this option activates the font that you requested or was requested by an auto activation plug in e Keep the current font active this opt
66. ing application font menus In applications that dynamically update their font menus active fonts are immediately added to the font list these include most of the major graphics applications such as QuarkXPress Adobe InDesign InCopy Photoshop and Illustrator If an application is not capable of dynamically updating its font menus re launch the application to access newly activated fonts e External Font Libraries In Suitcase Fusion 5 you can connect to external font libraries dynamically and gain access to thousands of new fonts You can connect easily to these font collections using both Suitcase Fusion and the Extensis Font Panel in your Adobe CS5 CS5 5 CS6 and Creative Cloud design applications WebINK fonts can only be used within the Suitcase Fusion 5 application for working with WebINK projects and from the Extensis Font Panel in Adobe Photoshop for not for publication purposes such as design comps and mockups for client approval If you sync Typekit fonts to your desktop through your Creative Cloud membership these fonts are available in Suitcase Fusion 5 and also in the Extensis Font Panel in Adobe applications Each font library carries its own terms of use so some restrictions may apply WebINK Terms of Service http www webink com terms About Google Fonts http www google com fonts AboutPlace about Typekit Services Agreement http www adobe com products eulas tou_typekit WebINK WebINK the font r
67. ion double click the file you downloaded and follow the on screen instructions Upgrading from Suitcase Fusion for Macintosh In order to upgrade from Suitcase Fusion you must perform one of the following database upgrade procedures e Collect fonts from Suitcase Fusion uninstall Suitcase Fusion then install Suitcase Fusion 5 recommended e Uninstall Suitcase Fusion install a demo copy of Suitcase Fusion 3 upgrade your Suitcase Fusion data then install Suitcase Fusion 5 and upgrade the Suitcase Fusion 3 data This method is useful if you have important sets that would be difficult to re create Method 1 Uninstalling Suitcase Fusion NOTE Before removing any important software you should have a full backup of your system 1 Stop managing System Fonts If you use Suitcase Fusion to manage any of your System Fonts you will need to restore those to their normal state a Start Suitcase Fusion b Choose Tools gt Manage System Fonts c From the View pop up menu choose All Managed System Fonts d Uncheck all the fonts in the list e Click Apply then click Done 2 Collect fonts a Choose View gt Show Suitcase Fusion Fonts Select all the fonts in the list Choose Tools gt Collect Fonts for Output PE Navigate to the folder where you want to collect your fonts and click Collect Fonts will be collected into a folder named Collected Fonts 3 Quit Suitcase Fusion 4 Uninstall plug ins a Make sure none of your desig
68. ion prevents the new font from deactivating the currently active font 24 Removing fonts You can remove fonts for any reason such as being outdated or corrupt Before deleting fonts be sure that you no longer need the font in the library and that you have a backup copy if you ever expect to use the font again Understanding font deletion Suitcase Fusion only removes fonts from the location that you have selected in the Libraries pane e Ifyou select a font in a set and delete it it is only removed from the set not the library e Ifyou select a set and delete it only the set and its subsets are removed not any fonts within the set e Ifyou select a font in a library and delete it it is only removed from the selected library If it was added to other libraries it remains in those libraries e Ifa font belongs to multiple libraries you must delete it from all libraries to remove it from Suitcase Fusion entirely To remove fonts 1 Select the fonts families sets or library that you want to delete 2 Choose Edit gt Delete Font s 3 When the alert asks you to confirm the deletion click Remove Collecting fonts Sometimes you may need to copy a specific subset of fonts from Suitcase Fusion to use elsewhere Suitcase Fusion and the auto activation plug ins for your design software include the ability to collect copies of fonts to a separate folder NOTE If you collect a font that has been added in place that is
69. ions are in the Basic Latin block e Private Use Areas Unicode Private Use Areas are left undefined so that third party developers can define their own characters that do not conflict with Unicode Two common symbols in this space are the Apple logo and the Microsoft Windows logo e Spacing Modifier Letters 02Bo 02FF This code block contains characters for the International Phonetic Alphabet Uralic Phonetic Alphabet and other phonetic transcription systems e Superscripts and Subscripts 2070 209F This code block contains superscript and subscript digits basic math symbols and commonly used letters Go to Glyph Enter a glyph ID to scroll to and select that glyph 40 Size Enter a font size choose one from the menu or drag the slider to change the size of the font displayed in the Glyph View window Glyph information This area of the window displays the glyph name code point in the font glyph ID and the number of glyphs in the selected font Screen tip For details about a specific glyph point the mouse at the glyph and wait A screen tip will be displayed showing the font name glyph ID code point code page glyph name and the keystroke used to type the character Printing previews Even in our digital world you sometimes just need to see something on paper for it to make sense For this reason Suitcase Fusion includes the ability to print sample pages of fonts in the preview window To print sample pages
70. is Font Panel on page 46 for more information Using Typekit fonts Typekit fonts appear in Suitcase Fusion as a separate library and you can use many of Suitcase s unique features with these fonts The Typekit library Typekit fonts that you have currently synced to your desktop are available in Suitcase Fusion If you remove all Typekit fonts from your system the Typekit library will not be displayed e You can use Typekit fonts in any Suitcase Fusion preview including Web View and QuickComp e Typekit fonts are fully compatible with Font Sense ensuring your documents will always use the correct font e You can assign keywords to Typekit fonts and mark Typekit fonts as favorites e You can search for Typekit fonts e You can use Typekit fonts as the basis for a QuickMatch operation and also use QuickMatch to find fonts in the Typekit library e Ifa conflict occurs between a Typekit font and a font in another library the Typekit font will be used and the conflicting font will be deactivated If you want to use a font that conflicts with a Typekit font use the Adobe Creative Cloud application to remove the Typekit font from your desktop e Typekit fonts are available in the Extensis Font Panel in supported Adobe applications NOTE Your license with Adobe allows you to use Typekit fonts in any application and embed them in documents for distribution see the Typekit Services Agreement http www adobe com products eulas tou_typeki
71. it is not in the Font Vault the whole font file will be collected even if the file contains fonts you did not choose for collection When you collect fonts that are stored in the Font Vault only the faces that you select will be collected See Adding fonts on page 21 for more information about adding fonts in place Collecting fonts from within Suitcase Fusion 1 Select individual faces font families or sets within Suitcase Fusion 2 Choose File gt Collect Fonts for Output 3 Inthe Collect for Output dialog navigate to the location where you want to save the font copies and click Choose A copy of all the selected fonts will be made in a folder called Collected Fonts Collecting fonts using drag and drop 1 Select individual faces font families or sets within Suitcase Fusion 2 Drag the selected fonts to the desktop a flash drive or any other location A copy of all the selected fonts will be made in a folder called Collected Fonts Collecting fonts from within design applications The Collect Fonts for Output feature creates a copy of all the fonts applied to text on printing pages in the active document or layout When a document is finished and ready for delivery to a service bureau you can collect fonts for output 1 Open the document or select the layout and make sure no fonts are missing The plug ins cannot collect missing fonts 2 Choose Collect Fonts for Output In Adobe Photoshop choose File gt Automate gt
72. l fonts in the current library that match the selected font s Type click the next to Type To edit one of the current font s attributes click the Pd icon next to the attribute name such as Keywords The Attributes tab The Attributes tab allows you to change the attributes applied to the selected font See Font attributeson page 28 for details The Fontspiration tab The Fontspiration tab presents examples of typography used in design elements You can click any example to open a web page that shows more information about the example and from there explore other ways to use typography in your design projects 15 Configuring Suitcase Fusion Before adding your fonts to Suitcase Fusion you need to make a few basic decisions about how you would like Suitcase Fusion to manage your fonts By making these decisions in advance you will better understand how Suitcase Fusion can help you stay organized and be more productive Suitcase Fusion can meet your font management needs by allowing you to use a secure repository called the Font Vault or use your current organization by using fonts from their existing locations on disk The Font Vault The Font Vault is a single secure managed repository that stores your entire Suitcase Fusion database as well as your fonts All of your font data including font sets keywords and custom classifications styles and foundries are also stored in the Font Vault The Font Vault also stores referenc
73. l that font data to create the Font list which can slow your work down considerably Extensis Suitcase Fusion fits directly in your workflow as a creative professional Whether you re searching for the right font for a new project matching a font currently in use or gathering fonts for output Suitcase Fusion provides easy font management at every step of the way Suitcase Fusion ensures that the exact font that you need is available when you need it Through powerful auto activation plug ins you can set your font activation preferences for each application To fit into your professional workflow Suitcase Fusion helps you Organize files the way you want e Keep your fonts outside the system s font folders saving precious system resources yet easily open as many fonts as you want any time you want e Store your fonts safe and secure in Suitcase Fusion s managed repository the Font Vault e Activate fonts on demand by dragging and dropping and deactivate them just as easily e Add fonts for specific jobs temporarily to your system to keep your font collection clean Find and preview fonts when you need them e Quickly find just the right font with search features such as QuickFind and Smart Sets e Organize and find fonts by many different attributes including keyword style classification and foundry e Preview multiple fonts at the same time making the selection of just the right font easier than ever e Closely examin
74. le an agency doing work for multiple movie studios could make a library for each studio Then within each library a new set would be created for each movie and nested within each movie set could be sets for specific projects like the movie poster DVD cover and website Service bureau or printer Service bureaus and printers have font management issues unlike most other users handling multiple fonts delivered by clients each day ensuring that the appropriate fonts are used to output each job controlling the number of active fonts and deleting fonts that are no longer necessary Fortunately many features in Suitcase Fusion are designed to address service bureau specific issues Managing house fonts Service bureaus generally own an extensive library of fonts that may be used to print their materials or to print documents for clients that do not provide fonts To keep these fonts separate from clients fonts the service bureau s fonts can be stored in a Font Vault used specifically for house fonts Adding clients fonts You re likely to receive anywhere from a few individual font files to a hundred or more fonts with each job The way you add those fonts to Suitcase Fusion will depend somewhat on the nature of the client or the nature of the job Generally it makes sense to keep the client fonts together with the rest of the client job files You could set up a folder hierarchy in which you maintain all customer jobs along with their f
75. lor nsis E itcaseFus USER GUIDE O Exte Su for OS X Copyright O 2005 2014 Celartem Inc doing business as Extensis This document and the software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved This document or the software described may not be copied in whole or part without the written consent of Extensis except in the normal use of the software or to make a backup copy of the software This exception does not allow copies to be made for others Licensed under U S patents issued and pending Extensis is a registered trademark of Celartem Inc The Extensis logos Font Sense Font Vault NetMediaMAX Portfolio Portfolio Flow Portfolio Server QuickFind QuickMatch QuickType Suitcase Suitcase Fusion TurboSync Universal Type Universal Type Client and Universal Type Core are trademarks of Extensis NetPublish Portfolio NetPublish Type Server Universal Type Server and WebINK are registered trademarks of Extensis Celartem Celartem Inc and the Celartem logo are trademarks of Celartem Inc Adobe Acrobat Creative Cloud Creative Suite Illustrator InCopy InDesign Photoshop PostScript Typekit and XMP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Apple AppleScript Bonjour the Bonjour logo Finder iBooks iPhone Mac the Mac logo Mac OS OS X QuickTime the QuickTime logo Safari TrueType and Xsan are trademarks of Ap
76. lso have different overall widths described by relative terms such as compressed and extended workflow The series of steps or processes that a piece of work passes through from inception to completion workgroup A collection of fonts in Universal Type Server intended to be used for a specific job or publication by a specific division or other grouping Users are added to a workgroup to gain access to its fonts A Type Server can host many workgroups and one user can belong to any number of workgroups A user s role and permissions can be different in each workgroup X x height The height of the lowercase x in a given font This is the standard height of lowercase letters disregarding ascenders descenders and curves such as in the letters a and s X height can vary greatly for different fonts at the same point size fonts with a large x height look bigger than a font at the same point size with a smaller x height XTension A plug in for QuarkXPress Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client provide an XTension that automatically activates fonts in a QuarkXPress document when you open the document 62 Extensis Extensis Europe 1800 SW First Avenue Suite 500 Suite 18 Newton House Portland OR 97201 Kings Park Road Moulton Park Toll Free 800 796 9798 Northampton NN3 6LG United Kingdom Phone 503 274 2020 Phone 44 0 1604 654 270 Fax 503 274 0530 Fax 44 0 1604 654 268 Web http www extensis com E
77. ly When fonts are grouped by family you can perform font management activities on the entire family in one operation including activating and deactivating adding a family to a set changing attributes of all fonts in the family and collecting the entire family of fonts To view and work with fonts in a family e To view the fonts within a family click the arrow next to a family s folder e If you are displaying fonts according to specific find criteria such as foundry only fonts that fit the criteria are displayed within each family e To perform an operation on an entire family such as activating it click the family s folder to select it then perform the operation as you would for a single font Regrouping font families If the way Suitcase Fusion creates typeface family groupings is not helpful you can move fonts into other families and rename font families For example some foundries such as Letraset name each instance of a font individually so there is no family name for Suitcase Fusion to use NOTE Changing a font family affects the fonts in all libraries To rename a font family click its name and type a new name To move fonts to other families 1 Open a family containing fonts you want to move 2 Select the fonts you want to move 3 Drag the selected fonts to the new family To return fonts to their default families select a font or family and choose Edit gt Restore Families 26 Sets Within ea
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79. members of the workgroup Users can only share a set if they have been given permission to do so smart set Font search criteria that a user saves in a library in Suitcase Fusion or in a workgroup in Universal Type Client When a user opens the smart set the search is performed and fonts in the library or workgroup that currently meet the search criteria are returned specimen A sample of type used for reference You can create a specimen book from Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client by printing a preview 60 startup set A set of fonts that will be permanently activated for all users in a workgroup in Universal Type Server Fonts in a startup set cannot be deactivated by the user and will not be overridden style A difference in appearance such as bold or italic that differentiates one face from another within a font family Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server also utilize styles as font attributes You can search for fonts with specific styles create smart sets based on styles and even assign different styles to fonts Changing the style attribute for a font in your font manager does not affect the appearance of the font nor how it is identified in application font menus suitcase 1 A resource based container in Classic Mac OS and OS X that can hold bitmap fonts TrueType fonts or both 2 Capitalized Suitcase a shorthand term for Suitcase Fusion the desktop font management software from Extensis synchronize
80. mputer pica became the standard The computer pica is 1 72 of an international foot which is defined as 0 3048 meter plug in A piece of software that can be added to an application or system to give additional functionality Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client provide plug ins for popular design applications that automatically activate the fonts used in a specific document when you open the document See also Font Sense XTension point A unit of measure in typography equal to 1 12 of a pica The size of the point varied between countries with the size of the foot until the 1980 s when the desktop publishing point DTP point defined as 1 72 of an inch defined as 2 54 cm became a de facto standard port A number used as an address by a server to determine which application should receive incoming data Universal Type Server needs specific ports open for communication with the Universal Type Client PostScript A page description language developed by Adobe as a device independent way to describe the layout of text and graphics ona page PostScript is also the basis behind Adobe Illustrator and PDF documents among others PostScript font An outline font specification that uses PostScript to define character shapes There are several different types of PostScript font Type 1is the most common and the most widely supported Type 1 fonts for Mac consist of an outline printer font file and a suitcase of bitmap screen f
81. n applications are running b Manually remove the Extensis plug in from each of your design applications In the Applications folder open each application s folder and look in the Plug ins or XTtensions folder In the Adobe Illustrator Plug ins folder move any of the following files to the Trash SCFusionILLCSPlugin SCFusionILLCS2Plugin aip SCFusionILLCS3Plugin aip In the Adobe InDesign Plug ins folder move any of the following files to the Trash SCFusionIDCSPlugin pln SCFusionIDCS2Plugin framework SCFusionIDCS3 InDesignPlugin In the QuarkXPress XTensions folder move any of the following files to the Trash Suitcase Fusion XT6 J axt Suitcase Fusion XT6 xnt Suitcase Fusion XT7 xnt When you have removed all the plug ins empty the Trash 5 Un install Suitcase Delete the Extensis Suitcase Fusion folder from inside the Applications folder 6 Remove remnants a Open the folder Users lt your user name gt Library Application Support Extensis NOTE To open your user Library folder hold down the OPTION key and select Go gt Library b Delete the Suitcase folder inside the Extensis folder If the Extensis folder is empty you can delete it too c Open the folder Users lt your user name gt Library Preferences d Delete the file com extensis SuitcaseFusion plist 7 Install Suitcase Fusion 5 page 8 Method 2 Interim upgrade to Suitcase Fusion 3 NOTE Before upgrading any important software y
82. nclude up to six different search criteria To search with the Find controls 1 Choose Edit gt Find Fonts or press COMMAND F The Find controls display at the top of the Fonts pane Graphics aj 2 Find fonts that match any of the following conditions Type _ matches r B Open Type PS Postscript Name contains FS helvetical 2 Choose an option from the drop down menu to specify whether you want to Find fonts that match ANY of the following conditions or Find fonts that match ALL of the following conditions For example do you want to find only fonts from Adobe that are OpenType PS or do you want to find all fonts from Adobe and all OpenType PS fonts 3 Choose find criteria from the Criteria drop down menu Postscript Name Menu Name Family Name Activation Duplicates Font Sense ID Temporary Fonts Type Version Classification Foundry Keyword Style Favorite or Date Added 4 Depending on the criteria you select different drop down menus and fields let you specify exactly what you re searching for If you choose Type as the criteria for example you can choose matches or does not match and then choose from a list of supported font types 5 To add additional criteria click the Add button To remove a criterion click its Remove button NOTE If you add search criteria remember to check whether you are searching for fonts that match any or all of the search criteria 6 As you spe
83. ng columns 29 Smart Set 30 making a favorites Smart Set 31 snapshot font 37 sorting fonts 29 specimen 41 starred fonts See favorites status bar 13 status font activation 33 styles 28 substitute fonts 44 preference setting for missing fonts 45 Suitcase Fusion maintenance 49 support 63 synchronizing Google Fonts 35 system font replacement 10 system fonts 17 default 7 overriding 17 required 17 system requirements Extensis Font Panel 8 Suitcase Fusion 8 T tear off previews See floating previews 66 technical support 63 temporary activation 32 temporary fonts activating 32 adding 22 text color 36 text size for previews 36 toolbar showing and hiding 12 traditional previews 36 U unassigning an attribute 28 Unicode block 40 uninstalling Suitcase Fusion 20 updates to Suitcase Fusion 20 updating font menus 33 updating Google Fonts 35 upgrading Suitcase Fusion 9 using a different Font Vault 50 Ww warnings restoring 51 Waterfall preview 36 Web View 38 controls 39 customizing 38 WebINK fonts 34 using in Photoshop 47 WebINK preview 38 what s new 11 workflows example 17
84. ng more consistent and visually pleasing keyword A word or phrase assigned to a font to describe it link it to other fonts and make it easier to locate using search tools You can add keywords to fonts that denote a project name client owner or even a description that you feel more accurately describes the font You can add as many keywords as you want to a font le leading pronounced ledding The space in between two lines of text from one baseline to the other Applications apply a default leading based on the point size of the text Leading is sometimes referred to as line spacing Leading can usually be adjusted to fit the needs of the document The term is derived from the fact that printers using movable metal type would insert strips of lead between lines of type to achieve the desired spacing See also baseline library The main collection of fonts in Suitcase Fusion While you can create multiple libraries applications can access fonts from one library at a time A library can be organized using sets license The legally acceptable uses and number of installations for a font Universal Type Server records font license information and can use it to monitor compliance ligature Two or more letters combined together into one glyph Ligatures were designed to improve the appearance of words when letters overlapped Ligatures are common for the combinations ff fi fl ffi and ffl The ligatur
85. ns e See Previewing Fonts on page 36 for more information Design application enhancements Suitcase Fusion provides the Extensis Font Panel for Adobe Illustrator InCopy InDesign and Photoshop This provides access to your font libraries and allows you to activate fonts without needing to open Suitcase Fusion You can also create custom font groups for use within these programs e For details see The Extensis Font Panel on page 46 The Font Management Core Suitcase Fusion keeps fonts active through the use of a background application called the Font Management Core or FMCore Because the FMCore is always running in the background you can exit Suitcase Fusion and still keep the fonts you want active The FMCore starts the first time you start Suitcase Fusion 5 then will automatically start every time you log in to your computer unless you manually stop the core To start the core after stopping it you just need to start Suitcase Fusion 5 To stop the FMCore 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window 3 Click the Stop FMCore button in the Preferences window In the warning dialog click Stop FMCore Suitcase Fusion 5 will exit NOTE You do not need to keep Suitcase Fusion open to keep fonts active or to activate fonts with the auto activation plug ins Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Quit Suitcase Fusion 5 COMMAND Q to close Suitcase Fusion 5 but keep the FMCore running
86. nt that is added in place it is merely removed from Suitcase Fusion The original font file remains in place on disk e You can collect export fonts from Suitcase Fusion directly or from applications using the auto activation plug ins Libraries Font libraries are the basic large collections of fonts in Suitcase Fusion Displayed in the upper left corner of the interface the Libraries pane displays all of your font libraries as well as the sets contained within each library System fonts are displayed separately in the Libraries pane Within the system fonts Suitcase Fusion displays a set for each system location that contains active system fonts It is likely that you will need only a single font library but there are some reasons why you may want to create additional libraries e Keep some new and unproven fonts out of your main workflow e Keep fonts for different clients separated e Use one as your main library and another as a place to add fonts in place for client jobs e Use libraries as a way to control auto activation since you can activate across all libraries or specify a distinct library for plug in activations For example you may have a client that only uses fonts that are licensed for specific projects You could create a separate library that contains only the approved licensed fonts for that client Then when using the Suitcase Fusion auto activation plug ins restrict font activation to only that library This keeps yo
87. o a service bureau for output compliance The process of tracking font licensing and associated font usage Universal Type Server provides two levels of compliance monitoring and enforcement core See Font Management Core D datastore A storage area on the Universal Type Server that includes the Font Vault as well as user workgroup and server configuration data deactivate To make a font unavailable to applications Fonts can be manually deactivated in Suitcase Fusion or Universal Type Server or automatically deactivated by a plug in Temporarily activated fonts deactivated when a user logs off the computer descender The part of a lowercase letter such as g p and j that extends below the baseline of a font Some uppercase letters and old style numerals also have descenders in some fonts See also baseline design application A program used for professional production of graphics documents web pages and other purposes Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client provide plug ins for QuarkXPress and several Adobe Creative Suite applications dingbat A character or symbol such as an arrow star or bullet used as decoration A font that consists of such symbols is often called a dingbat font E embed To include a font or subset of a font in a digital document ensuring that text in the document is rendered precisely as designed Some font licenses do not allow embedding or restrict what embedding can b
88. of a font one that contains the Euro glyph as well as an older one that does not In this case you may want to pare your libraries down to one version of each font To locate duplicate fonts 1 Choose Edit gt Find Fonts or press COMMAND F 2 Choose Duplicates from the drop down menu This option shows different versions of the same font in the selected library 3 If necessary click the Name column to sort fonts alphabetically and disable View gt Group Fonts by Fam ily 4 Try to determine the differences between the fonts If you need to display more information choose options from View gt Columns 5 Once you determine the differences decide which font to keep and remove the other font from the library See Removing fonts on page 25 NOTE Before you remove fonts create a backup of the fonts by collecting them to other media If you need multiple versions of the same font in a library for example in a library for advertisers fonts you can leave duplicates in the library Missing fonts Suitcase Fusion notifies you of a missing font if you attempt to activate or preview a font that is missing Fonts are considered missing if they are added in place and then the original font file is removed deleted or otherwise unavailable To indicate a missing font Suitcase Fusion displays a red dot with a question mark Q in the activation status column To view the expected location of the font enable the Location column
89. ommon design applications See also auto activation deactivate and global auto activation alternate A different glyph for a character in a font for example a small cap or swash characters Some applications and operating systems do not provide access to alternate characters in a font anti aliasing A technique to smooth jagged edges on curves and diagonal lines Pixels near the edge of the figure are blurred with surrounding pixels and the image background For black text on a white background some pixels near the edge are rendered in shades of gray rather than black ascender The part of a lowercase letter such as b d h and k that rises above the x height of the other lowercase letters in a face In old style numerals 6 and 8 are classified as having ascenders since they rise above the other digits See also descender ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange A system for encoding characters for use in computer systems The ASCII character set uses a 7 bit encoding allowing for 128 characters valued 0 127 The first 32 characters 0 31 are non printing control characters such as tab and backspace Characters 32 127 are standardized as digits letters punctuation and other symbols Later successors to ASCII use 8 bits allowing for 256 characters The additional 128 characters vary between computer systems and languages but are usually additional Latin characters currency symbols European punctuation and a few mathem
90. on window As you change preview type text and size the floating preview updates to reflect your changes Activating and deactivating Just like all other font previews you can activate or deactivate a font directly from the floating preview To activate or deactivate the font click the activation status icon in the floating preview Closing multiple floating previews If you have multiple floating preview windows on your desktop it can be tedious to click the close icon on all of the previews To make it faster to close multiple floating preview windows they can be merged down into a single preview and then closed To close multiple floating previews 1 Choose Window gt Floating Previews gt Merge or press COMMAND SHIFT M 2 Click the close icon on the floating preview Font snapshot You can tear off a preview and save it as a picture file for use as a reference for customer approval or for use in a graphics application Previews are saved as 72ppi Portable Network Graphic PNG files with a transparent background To save a preview as a graphic 1 Choose any type of preview except Web View Enter the text you want to use for the preview Select the font to preview Set the desired font size Ae wN 5 Drag the k icon in the preview s title bar to the desktop or a folder The resulting file will be named for the font you are previewing NOTE Font Snapshot is only available for locally installed fonts
91. ontSense so your documents know the correct font to use you can preview and print font samples use QuickComp QuickMatch and many of your other favorite Suitcase Fusion features Typekit fonts are also available in the Extensis Font Panel see Using external libraries on page 47 See Using Typekit fonts on page 35 for more information QuickComp QuickComp is a new Preview option that displays your font choices used in a variety of document layouts Multiple templates are available that mimic brochures newsletters and other common design projects For details see QuickComp on page 38 11 Details Panel The Details Panel has been enlarged and moved from the bottom left to the right side of the main window It displays more details about anything you select in the Library pane provides shortcuts for QuickFind searches using many popular search criteria and allows you to directly edit some properties For details see The Details Panel on page 15 Enhanced Toolbar The toolbar now provides access to more frequently used features including a dedicated button for connecting to the WebINK service Reorganized Library Pane The WebINK and Google Fonts libraries have been moved to the bottom of the Library pane to provide faster access to your local font libraries QuickMatch Improvements QuickMatch is now faster in most cases Also the target font is no longer included in the list of results so it will not scroll out of view if
92. onts Since the Suitcase Fusion Font Vault is portable you could create a separate vault specifically to house this client s fonts By using a Font Vault specifically for each client you can be assured that only those client s fonts are being used for the job giving your client the peace of mind that they aren t using any fonts but their own If you prefer to work from a single Font Vault you can differentiate your customer s fonts using font libraries within Suitcase Fusion When a customer brings in ajob you could select their library in Suitcase Fusion and add all fonts for the job as a set in that library Since the Suitcase Fusion auto activation plug ins activate fonts only within a single library you can be sure that only fonts from that library are being automatically activated If you prefer not to keep fonts on your system at all you may consider other options depending upon the type of client and job For a new client with a one or two page job you might want to add the fonts temporarily page 22 The fonts are added to Suitcase Fusion immediately activated and override any active fonts with the same name When you shut down the computer the fonts are removed from Suitcase Fusion Web design Modern browsers give web designers the ability to use fonts on a web page when the viewer of the page does not have the font installed Suitcase Fusion offers two unique tools for you to mock up and preview web pages using web fonts from WebI
93. onts Type 1 fonts for Windows include a binary font PFB file and a font metrics PFM file preview To display sample text in a given font The Preview pane in Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client can display sample text in selected fonts These applications provide several ways to preview fonts in context including Web View for web designers transparent floating previews to see a text sample overlaid on any other application and QuickComp to display longer runs of text in a design like environment 59 Q QuickComp A preview available in Suitcase Fusion that helps you choose fonts for a document based on the type of project QuickFind A tool in Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client that quickly searches through font names and attributes for a string of text QuickMatch A tool in Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Client that finds similar fonts based on visual characteristics QuickType A preview mode in Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server that allows you to enter a short string of text to be previewed in selected fonts R replication The action of copying something In Universal Type Client replication is the process used to update your local font data based on changes made to the Universal Type Server resolution 1 The pixel dimensions of an image or device an HDTV has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels 2 The pixel density typically dots per inch or pixels per inch of an image or device A laser
94. onts are not required for a job or project that you may need to work on at some point Once your fonts are cleaned up create sets for your current clients and projects You can then activate sets permanently for ongoing jobs and activate sets temporarily for quick jobs When you finish a job you can collect the fonts in the project s set to create a copy of the fonts for your service bureau In addition to creating sets scan through your fonts and activate permanently any fonts that you use often For example activate the fonts used in your own letterhead and logo and activate Zapf Dingbats Symbol Times and Helvetica When you acquire new fonts add them to the vault as well Option 2 Adding fonts in place If you have a font organization system that you prefer you can set up Suitcase Fusion to add fonts in place See Adding fonts in place on page 22 If you add fonts from removable media for example CDs or DVDs and you don t have enough space on your hard drive to store all these fonts you can add these fonts to Suitcase Fusion by choosing the Add fonts leaving them in place option in the Preferences dialog This allows you to catalog all your fonts without storing them all on your hard drive When you want to use these fonts you will have to mount the appropriate volume Suitcase Fusion will notify you when you need to To have Suitcase Fusion leave fonts in place 1 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences 2 Enable the Add fon
95. ore information about fonts you use frequently This makes accessing those fonts much faster These font caches can become out of sync which can lead to slower performance and to fonts not displaying properly It is a good idea to clean your font caches from time to time If you are seeing problems with the way some fonts are displayed or suddenly experience a slowdown when loading a program it s probably a good idea to clean your caches Suitcase Fusion 5 will clean the caches maintained by e Mac OS X including OS X 10 9 Mavericks e Microsoft Office X 2004 2008 and 2011 e Adobe InDesign CS3 CS4 CS5 CS 5 5 CS6 and Creative Cloud e Adobe Illustrator CS3 CS4 CS5 CS 5 1 included in Creative Suite 5 5 CS6 and Creative Cloud e Adobe Acrobat 8 9 X and XI e Adobe Reader 8 9 X and XI e QuarkXPress 7 8 9 and 10 To clean your font caches Quit all other applications Launch Suitcase Fusion 5 Choose File gt Clean Font Caches Click Clean and Restart When prompted enter your system password and click OK nF WN p Suitcase Fusion will delete all the font cache files for the OS and the applications you have installed then restart your computer When you restart your computer will rebuild its font cache Each application will rebuild its cache the next time you use it Restoring warning messages From time to time while you are using Suitcase Fusion the application will warn you about the consequences o
96. ou should have a full backup of your system When you install Suitcase Fusion 3 you can import all of your previous Suitcase data into the new installation This includes all of your fonts sets and other information Because the import process checks all fonts for integrity if you added any fonts in place from removable media such as DVDs flash drives or external hard disks you will need to have these available during the import process NOTE If you have multiple users on the same computer and want to migrate each user s data you must run the Import command for each user 1 Uninstall plug ins see above Quit Suitcase Fusion 3 Un install Suitcase Fusion Delete the Extensis Suitcase Fusion folder from inside the Applications folder 4 Install Suitcase Fusion 3 Download the installer from the Extensis website http www extensis com support product support suitcase fusion 3 5 Start Suitcase Fusion 3 When prompted choose the 30 day demo 6 Choose Suitcase Fusion 3 gt Import Fusion database If the menu item is not available then older Suitcase Fusion data was not detected 7 When prompted insert external media or mount necessary network drives requested by Suitcase Fusion 3 At the end of the import process the import log will be displayed The log tells you if any of your fonts failed to import and if there were any other errors in the import process 8 Install Suitcase Fusion 5 page 8 After Suitcase Fusion 5 t
97. ple Inc registered in the U S and other countries App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U S and other countries and is used under license Microsoft Excel Internet Explorer PowerPoint SQL Server Visual Basic Windows and Windows Vista are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Intel Intel Core Pentium and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and or other countries Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and or its affiliates Google and Android are trademarks of Google Inc Apache Tika Apache Tomcat and Tomcat are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation Quark QuarkXPress XTensions QuarkXTensions and other Quark related marks which Quark may adopt from time to time are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quark Inc and its affiliates in the U S and or other countries Panasonic is a registered trademark of Panasonic Corporation All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Includes DBPrefsWindowController by Dave Batton http www Mere Mortal Software com blog Copyright 2007 Some rights reserved DBPrefsWindowController is licensed under a Creative Commons license http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 Extensis warrants the disks on which the software is recorded to be free from defects in materials and faulty workmanship under normal use
98. ple versions Using the wrong fonts can result in text reflow which can alter line breaks affect the design cut off text etc To ensure that you re always using the correct fonts Suitcase Fusion and Font Sense provide unique font identification and automatic activation Font Sense technology is designed to overcome the limitations of font names Most applications record the names and sometimes the types OpenType PostScript etc of fonts used in documents But with the various types of fonts vendors and versions that exist font names are not unique identifiers Most users have multiple versions of many fonts on their computers particularly common fonts such as Helvetica and Times and the applications they use cannot identify which versions are used in their documents Font Sense solves this by saving complete font metadata into documents The font metadata generated by Font Sense starts with the name type foundry and version number of the fonts Then for truly unique font identification the metadata includes additional items such as checksum values The final result is the Font Sense identification number which you can view in Suitcase Fusion View gt Columns gt Font Sense Each time you save a document in a supported application the plug in records updated Font Sense metadata with the document The documents no longer rely solely on names to identify the fonts used in them When you open documents containing Font Sense specifica
99. printer may have a resolution of 600 dots per inch role A specific grouping of user permissions in Universal Type Server Default roles are defined based on typical font workflows but the Server Administrator can create new roles or assign specific permissions for individual users S sans serif A font without serifs Examples include Franklin Gothic Helvetica Optima and Futura See also serif scalable font See outline font serif 1 The small projecting lines at the edges of letters and symbols 2 A font whose characters include serifs Examples are Palatino Times New Roman Bodoni and Courier server 1 A computer system dedicated to delivering files or services to users or to other computer systems such as a file server or print server 2 A software package that provides a service to users or other computer systems such as Universal Type Server or Portfolio Server Service Principal Name SPN The name by which a client can uniquely identify an instance of a service The Service Principal Name identifies Universal Type Server to a Directory Service allowing users to be authenticated set A collection of fonts within a library in Suitcase Fusion or a workgroup in Universal Type Client Type Client sets are initially user specific but can be shared with all members of the workgroup See also shared set smart set and startup set shared set A font set in Universal Type Client that the creator has made available to all
100. r To enable the Google Fonts from within Suitcase Fusion 5 choose File gt Enable Google Fonts The Google Fonts library icon is displayed in the Suitcase Fusion 5 Library pane To disable access to Google Fonts choose File gt Disable Google Fonts You can enable Google Fonts in the Adobe Creative Suite design apps by choosing Google from the drop down menu of available font libraries If the Google Fonts are not displayed click the Enable button Updating Google Fonts Suitcase Fusion 5 periodically updates the list of Google Fonts To manually synchronize fonts File gt Synchronize Web Fonts The Google Fonts library E Google Fonts are shown as a special library with this icon in Suitcase Fusion 5 You can do almost anything with this library that you can do with any other library in Suitcase Fusion 5 including e Add keywords and add or edit other properties of the fonts e Create sets e Copy fonts to another library e Collect fonts for output e Mark favorites Here are the things that you cannot do with the Google Fonts library e You can t rename the library e You can t add fonts to the library e You can t remove fonts from the library e You can t delete the library You can disable it from the File menu Google Fonts in Adobe Creative Suite You can choose to use Google Fonts from the Extensis Font Panel in Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign CS5 and later including Creative Cloud See The Extens
101. raphic Style Version 4 0 by Robert Bringhurst ISBN 13 978 0881792126 Updated and revised edition of the style guide by poet and typographer Bringhurst Getting it Right With Type The Dos and Don ts of Typography by Victoria Squire ISBN 10 1856694747 An introduction to the basics of typography More for type designers The Art of the Letter by Doyald Young ISBN 13 978 0974338316 A beautiful book about typography that showcases some of the author s logos and typefaces BRIEM NET http briem net Thoughts on handwriting lettering and type design Crafting Type Font Design Workshops http craftingtype com Concentrated workshops for beginners in type design Designing Type by Karen Cheng ISBN 13 978 0300111507 Describes the processes behind creating and designing type Diacritics Project http diacritics typo cz Designing a font with correct accents Fontographer Type by Design by Stephen Moye ISBN 13 978 1558284470 Out of print but available used this is a great intro no matter what tool you use The Stroke Theory of Writing by Gerrit Noordzij ISBN 13 978 0907259305 Discusses the theory of writing as the concepts behind the letters on the page 54 Glossary A activate To make a font available for use within applications Fonts can be activated permanently or temporarily through Suitcase Fusion or Universal Type Client and can also be automatically activated using the auto activation plug ins for c
102. raries pane to rename it To edit the criteria for a smart set right click the set and choose Edit Smart Set from the shortcut menu 30 Favorites Suitcase Fusion 5 allows you to easily mark fonts as favorites then use this when sorting or searching for fonts You can mark favorites in any library including WebINK and Google Fonts e To mark a font as a favorite click the star icon in the Fonts list in the Previews list or in a floating preview pane Favorites appear with a gold star icon e To clear a favorite click the star Lal icon again A Favorites smart set If you create a smart set with your favorites it will always reflect your current choices When you mark a new favorite it is automatically included in the set when a font loses favor it is removed To create a Favorites smart set 1 Mark some fonts as favorites 2 Choose File gt New Smart Set 3 Inthe Smart Set definition pane choose Favorite from the first conditional pop up menu then choose Yes from the second Untitled Smart Set E o rl Find fonts that match any Of the following conditions Favorite Yes iE Close the Smart Set definition pane 5 Change the set name to something relevant such as Favorites am Activating and Deactivating Fonts Suitcase Fusion lets you quickly find the fonts you need and then activate and deactivate individual fonts families and sets
103. recreate the set or add the new fonts to the set manually 44 Auto activation preferences The auto activation plug in for each application has its own set of preferences that control how it works By default the plug ins auto activate fonts according to Font Sense metadata when documents are opened save detailed Font Sense data within documents and deactivate auto activated fonts when you close documents As you use a plug in you may find that a default setting is not appropriate for your workflow and need to change it e To change auto activation preferences for Adobe Photoshop choose File gt Automate gt Extensis to open the Extensis dialog then click Suitcase Fusion Auto Activation Preferences e To change preferences for Adobe Illustrator InCopy and InDesign choose Type gt Suitcase Fusion gt Suitcase Fusion Auto Activation Preferences e To change preferences for QuarkXPress choose Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion gt Suitcase Fusion Auto Activation Preferences Enabling Auto Activation When the Enable Auto Activation plug in preference is enabled the plug ins scan documents as you open them to determine the necessary fonts The plug ins identify fonts by looking at the document s Font Sense data if available or looking at the fonts by name where they are used in the document Enable Auto Activation is checked by default to disable automatic activation uncheck it Enabling Font Sense support By default the pl
104. removed any other font manager You may wish to review Font Management in Mac OS X Best Practices Guide available from the Extensis website http www extensis com downloads documents font management mac best practices This document contains many helpful hints about cleaning your system font folders and setting up your system for optimal font usage System requirements For the most up to date information about the latest version of Suitcase Fusion please visit the Extensis websitehttp www extensis com support product support suitcase fusion 5 Requirements for Suitcase Fusion 5 e Mac OS X v10 6 8 10 7 10 8 Or 10 9 e 1 6 GHz or faster processor e 300 MB available hard drive space for application and font files e 1GB additional hard drive space for font services including WebINK Requirements will vary for each service additional fonts are added automatically e Internet connection and Safari 5 Firefox 7 or Chrome 14 or later to view Help Additional requirements for the Extensis Font Panel e Adobe Photoshop Illustrator or InDesign CS5 or later including Creative Cloud e Adobe Flash Player e A WebINK account to use WebINK fonts in Adobe Photoshop Disabling other font managers If you are using a font manager other than Suitcase Fusion be sure to disable it completely before installing Suitcase Fusion In general you should uninstall the application to be sure that all of its components are
105. revious versions of Suitcase Fusion It has been moved to the right side of the main window and includes three tabs Info Attributes and Fontspiration Info displays relevant information about whatever is selected a library set or individual fonts If you have multiple items selected the Info tab displays information about one at a time and lets you choose other items in your selection from a pop up menu Info also provides shortcuts to start a Find operation based on any of several criteria and also allows you to directly edit some font attributes Attributes allows you to create attributes assign them to fonts or remove them from fonts Fontspiration displays typography examples designed to inspire you to seek new and unique ways to use typography in your own projects e For more details see The Details Panelon page 15 Status bar If you are adding removing activating or deactivating a large number of fonts it may take some time for Suitcase Fusion to process your request The status of your request is always displayed at the bottom of the Suitcase Fusion interface along with a cancel button if required If you want to view more detailed information open the Activity Viewer window e To display the Activity Viewer choose Window gt Activity Viewer 134 Major features and functions Font organization and security Suitcase Fusion organizes your fonts into a main library into which you can add custom sets and subsets
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107. s installed Enter your serial number Your serial number is located inside the product case or it was sent to you via e mail Enter it the first time you start Suitcase Fusion 5 or enter it later from the Help menu If you do not enter a serial number Suitcase Fusion 5 will run in a demonstration mode for 30 days To purchase a serial number contact Extensis customer service page 63 Register your software After you enter your serial number you will be asKed to register your copy of Suitcase Fusion 5 Click Yes to visit the Extensis website It is important to register your software so that we can provide you with the best possible service Registered users are eligible for free technical support information regarding new versions and products discounts and special offers on upgrades If you purchased and downloaded the software from the Extensis website then it has already been registered You can register any time at https www extensis com store product registration Disable automatic system font replacement Apple s built in Font Book can interfere with Suitcase Fusion When enabled Mac OS X will automatically place protected fonts back into your system font folders even if you remove them This may prevent Suitcase Fusion 5 from effectively managing or overriding your system fonts To disable this feature in Font Book follow these steps From the Applications folder launch Font Book Choose Font Book gt Pref
108. s wrong you can return your system to its previous state You should also make a backup of your system font folders as an additional precaution Pare down your system fonts Remove fonts that you installed and those installed by third party programs Hang on to them so you can add them back in to Suitcase Fusion as you need them To help identify the fonts that came with your computer see these pages e OSX Fonts included with Mavericks http support apple com kb HT5944 e OSX Fonts included with Mountain Lion http support apple com kb HT5379 e OS X Lion Fonts list http support apple com kb HT5098 e Mac OS X vi0 6 Fonts list http support apple com kb HT5154 Locate third party font discs If you have other fonts you want to add after you install Suitcase Fusion locate the discs beforehand so you have them available Upgrade old fonts While you may need to keep old versions of some fonts for specific clients or jobs you should consider upgrading older PostScript or TrueType fonts to their OpenType equivalents to use in new jobs OpenType fonts generally are higher quality can access more symbols and special characters are easier to install and manage and are more compatible between platforms than older formats Installing or Upgrading to Suitcase Fusion 5 Before you install or upgrade an existing copy of Suitcase Fusion make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements and that you have disabled or
109. should include keep a current backup of your system and keep an eye on wear and tear especially on critical parts like your hard disks Suitcase maintenance Not all computing accidents are catastrophic enough to resort to restoring a backup or buying new hardware Sometimes replacing a single file with a known good copy will get you on your way If you Keep a separate backup of your Font Vault you can easily return to productivity if you start having font problems See Backing up your Font Vault below On Mac OS X some font problems can occur if an application s font cache becomes corrupt Suitcase Fusion can delete application and system font caches to eliminate this source of trouble See Cleaning font caches on page 51 Suitcase Fusion can present many kinds of warning messages about fonts You can disable these warnings if you don t want to see them repeatedly but sometimes they can give you just the information you need to set a problem right again If you suspect that you have problem fonts but Suitcase is no longer warning you you can re enable any warning messages that you have disabled See Restoring warning messages on page 51 Finally we regularly update Suitcase Fusion to fix issues add features or to work with an operating system update Be sure to keep your copy of Suitcase up to date see Getting updates on page 20 Backing up your Font Vault To back up your Font Vault copy it to a network location or external disk or
110. t for specific rights and restrictions 35 Previewing Fonts While you re designing a document you may need to identify a font by look rather than by name To quickly show you what fonts look like Suitcase Fusion displays live previews of fonts selected in the Fonts pane You can edit the preview text choose the type of preview adjust the size and change the text and background colors Encoding aware previews If you select a font that does not contain the characters in your preview whatever the preview mode Suitcase Fusion will display the characters that exist in the font For example if you attempt to preview an Arabic or Asian font that does not contain traditional Roman characters instead of displaying nothing Suitcase Fusion displays the characters that actually exist in the font Traditional previews Suitcase Fusion 5 includes four preview types that show a short text in all selected fonts Choose the preview type from the Preview drop down menu Preview types e ABC 123 Displays the alphabet in uppercase the alphabet in lowercase and the numerals and symbols found at the top of the keyboard e Paragraph Displays a full paragraph of text e QuickType Quickly enter a line of text to preview The sample text field includes a drop down menu that allows you to choose other text samples e Waterfall Displays a partial alphabet and sample numerals at various sizes The sample text field includes a drop down menu
111. t multiple users cannot access a single Font Vault at the same time If you need to share fonts between users it is best to use a server based font manager such as Universal Type Server To create a new font vault ne Ww N p Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window Click New Navigate to the location where you want the new Font Vault enter a name for it and click Save When prompted to cancel or restart Suitcase Fusion 5 click Restart The new Font Vault will be created and automatically selected Using a different Font Vault If you have multiple Font Vaults or want to use a restored backup you may need to switch between vaults To select a different font vault We WW N p Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Preferences Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window Click Select Navigate to the location of the other Font Vault and click Open When prompted to cancel or restart Suitcase Fusion 5 click Restart The new Font Vault will be automatically selected NOTE The default location for the Suitcase Fusion 5 Font Vault is in the user s Library folder which is hidden on OS X 10 7 and later To access the default font vault from within the Select File dialog press COMMAND SHIFT G to display the Go to Folder window type Library Extensis Suitcase Fusion and click Go 5O Cleaning font caches Many applications including your operating system st
112. t the top of the Preview pane then press RETURN To preview an HTML file in Suitcase Fusion 1 Choose Web View from the Preview Type menu at the bottom of the window 2 Click the drop down button at the end of the address bar and choose Browse 3 Select the file you want to preview Customizing the Web View You can apply a local font a font from the WebINK library or a Google Font to any text element on the page or to the entire page In order to preview WebINK fonts you need to be connected to the WebINK service To use Google Fonts you must activate them Selecting elements e To select an element on the page click it once Selected elements are surrounded by a dotted marquee e To select multiple elements hold down the COMMAND key and click each element NOTE Depending on how the page is structured you might click on part of a page that selects the parent element of several elements such as an entire list rather than one item in the list e To deselect an element hold down the COMMAND key and click the element 38 Web View controls a gt Back and Forward Page through visited websites removing any formatting changes Address Bar Enter any web address select any previously visited address from the drop down menu or select Browse from the menu to open any local HTML file Font Painter To apply a font to multiple elements click a font thumbnail click the Font Painter button then click elements on the
113. te a master folder of fonts ensuring that all the fonts in the folder have been properly licensed and that the company owns sufficient licenses for each of the fonts The administrator can distribute this folder to each of the users in the workgroup by copying the folder of fonts to each user s computer or placing the folder in a network location so each user can download and add the fonts to Suitcase Fusion themselves Users should add fonts to the Font Vault on their local computer The administrator can add fonts to the master folder and users can then periodically add the entire folder to Suitcase Fusion Only new fonts in the folder will be added to a user s Font Vault 18 For special projects the users can add fonts to Suitcase Fusion using the Add fonts leaving them in place preference By choosing to add fonts in place new fonts are not added to the user s Font Vault and only approved fonts remain in the vault Users can further organize fonts from special projects using Libraries and Sets If it s important that fonts aren t stored together and not used across clients the user can create a library for each client and only add fonts for a single client in each library If the user only wants to create a group of fonts as a reminder of which fonts were used for each client keep all of the fonts in one library and create a set for each client Each client set can be further organized by creating nested sets for each project For examp
114. that allows you to choose other text samples You can type or paste new text for the preview into the sample text field as well Text size You can display fonts in all the Preview Types in sizes from 9 point to 96 point Drag the Preview Size slider or choose a point size from the drop down menu to see the selected fonts at different sizes Waterfall text is displayed in three sizes 2 3 of the chosen size the chosen size and 150 of the chosen size Preview colors You can change the text and background color for the Previews pane Click the Text color swatch to change the text color and the Background color swatch to change the background color To return to the default colors click the Reset button 36 Floating previews Floating previews are helpful when you want to preview a number of fonts in the context of a project without activating the fonts Floating previews are torn off from preview window but still respond to any changes in preview text color and size To be most useful you will likely want to use this feature in conjunction with QuickType previews Until they are closed floating previews always display on top of all other applications in operating system Tearing off a floating preview To tear off a floating preview 1 Choose one or more fonts in the Fonts pane 2 For each font preview that you want to create a floating preview click and drag the Floating Preview button off the Suitcase Fusi
115. the auto activation plug in scans the document to see what fonts are used in it and then automatically activates precisely those fonts provided the fonts reside in the selected library The following fonts are considered to be used in a document e Fonts applied to text e The font specified in the application s Normal style sheet e Fonts applied to text on master pages whether or not the master pages are applied to document pages NOTE By default the auto activation plug ins activate individual instances of fonts rather than all the fonts in a family For example if a document requires Minion Bold a plug in would activate only Minion Bold not the entire Minion family You can however choose to activate entire families by selecting the Activate entire font families option in Auto Activation Preferences Embedded graphics The auto activation plug ins will scan graphic files embedded in your documents for fonts By default the plug ins will identify fonts in graphics by name When Activate fonts in embedded objects is enabled the plug ins look at the Font Sense metadata saved with Illustrator EPS and Photoshop PSD documents to auto activate fonts If Font Sense data is not available for a graphic file the plug ins identify fonts by name NOTE Currently only Adobe Illustrator EPS files and Adobe Photoshop PSD files with unrasterized text layers are saved with Font Sense metadata Missing fonts If you open a document and
116. the em space and zero width space e Geometric Shapes 25A0 25FF This includes some basic and complex geometric shapes such as squares circles triangles and diamonds e Greek and Coptic 0370 03FF This contains traditional Greek letters variants archaic versions punctuation editorial symbols and some Coptic letters e IPA Extensions 0250 02AF The International Phonetic Alphabet includes some basic Latin and Greek characters from other blocks This block contains specialty characters used by the IPA to denote speech effects such as tooth gnashing and lisping e Latin Extended Additional 1EOo 1EFF This block includes additional Latin letters with diacritic marks including extensions for Vietnamese e Latin Extended A 0100 017F This block includes European Latin letters with diacritic marks e Latin Extended B 1080 024F This block includes non European Latin letters with diacritic marks e Latin 1 Supplement 0080 00FF This block includes common European diacritics punctuation accented characters currency and other symbols e Letterlike Symbols 2100 214F This block includes characters that look like or include letter forms Some of these characters are mathematical symbols e Mathematical Operators 2200 22FF This block includes a wide range of mathematical symbols and operators e Number Forms 2150 218F This block includes common fractions and Roman numerals Note that some common fract
117. this option When you quit the application the font is deactivated unless it is in use in another application Font digests Besides the main font libraries Google Suitcase Fusion Fonts and WebINK you can create your own groups that include only the fonts you want to see To create a font digest 1 Click the Add button at the top of the Font Panel The panel will show a hierarchy of all the font groups you have available including WebINK projects and sets in your Suitcase Fusion Fonts libraries 2 Check the box next to a set project or library to include those fonts in your digest The pane at the bottom of the Font Panel lists all the fonts you ve included so far as well as showing how many fonts you have selected 3 Type a name for the Font Digest at the top of the Font Panel then click Done to create your digest Font digests are added to the pop up menu of font groups To remove a digest select it from the pop up menu and click the Remove button To edit a digest select it in the list and click the Edit button Check the boxes next to sets projects or libraries to add those groups of fonts to the digest Clear checked boxes to remove fonts from the digest Click the Done button when you are finished editing NOTE Font digests will be available in the Font Panel in all supported design apps WebINK fonts added to your digests will only be available from Font Panel in Photoshop 46 Using external libraries
118. tions the plug ins use the Font Sense data to determine and activate precisely the right fonts Since the font metadata is saved within the document detailed font information travels with it No matter where the document is opened Font Sense knows precisely which fonts to activate Installing plug ins Suitcase Fusion includes plug ins for Adobe Photoshop Illustrator InDesign InCopy and QuarkXPress After installing Suitcase Fusion you ll want to install the auto activation plug ins to take advantage of precise Font Sense powered activation NOTE The plug ins for Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign also include the Extensis Font Panel Auto activation plug ins are installed and removed with the Suitcase Fusion Plug in Manager The Plug in Manager adds and removes plug ins from the appropriate Plug ins and XTensions folders as required To install or remove auto activation plug ins 1 Close the target application Adobe Photoshop InDesign InCopy Illustrator or QuarkXPress for which you want to manage plug ins 2 Choose Suitcase Fusion 5 gt Manage Plug ins 3 In the Plug in Manager window check the box next to a plug in to install it or clear the box to remove it Plug in status changes take effect the next time you launch the application NOTE You must have administrative privileges on the computer to install or remove plug ins When new versions of the design applications are released Extensis typically creates a new plug
119. to organize your fonts by project client or any other criteria that makes sense in your workflow e For more information about libraries see Libraries on page 21 e For more information about sets see Sets on page 27 and Smart Sets on page 30 Keeping your fonts in the Font Vault adds an extra layer of protection against corruption and accidental removal e For details on using the Font Vault see The Font Vault on page 16 Font activation Suitcase Fusion gives you many ways to activate and deactivate fonts for use in your projects You can activate them manually through the Suitcase Fusion application automatically when you start an application or automatically when you open a document e For details about the various methods of font activations see Activating and Deactivating Fonts on page 32 and Font Auto Activation on page 42 Finding fonts Suitcase Fusion provides a number of ways to find specific fonts or fonts that have certain properties Use QuickFind to find fonts by name or use the Find feature to find fonts that meet certain criteria QuickMatch identifies fonts that look similar to another font e For more information see Finding fonts on page 29 QuickFind on page 30 and QuickMatch on page 30 Previewing fonts Suitcase Fusion includes eight different font preview types four traditional types and four geared for digital publishers You can also print most of these previews to create custom specimen books or presentatio
120. ts leaving them in place option When you add fonts your font files will remain in place and they will not be added to the vault Of course you could also choose to add fonts to an entirely separate font library File gt New Library This way the fonts would be stored in your Font Vault but would not be mingled in with the rest of your font collection Advertising agency or publishing workgroup If more than one computer is used in your publishing process font management becomes extremely important Any variation in fonts between computers can result in problems such as missing fonts inaccurate substitutions or text reflow In addition administrators must ensure that the company owns licenses for the fonts installed on all computers You can use Suitcase Fusion features to control these issues or upgrade to a more powerful server based font management system With a stand alone font manager each user must manage their own fonts as a freelance graphic designer would Each user maintains their own font library stored in their own vault If the Suitcase Fusion users are working over a network on the same documents they can still manage their own fonts To prevent problems users must obtain their fonts for common jobs from the same source For example if a user receives a disc of fonts with Adobe InDesign they cannot be sure that the font versions are the same as fonts received on a disc with Adobe Photoshop The administrator should crea
121. u from inadvertently using an unapproved font for that client s projects To add a new library choose File gt New Library Adding fonts You can add fonts via drag and drop or choose File gt Add Fonts While adding fonts Suitcase Fusion scans them to collect information and check for corruption NOTE Suitcase Fusion does not add orphan bitmap or orphan outline fonts In addition some repairs are made as fonts are added See Resolving problemson page 23 for more information Adding fonts individually Suitcase Fusion makes it easy to add fonts by searching through volumes folders and files to locate font files for you To add fonts to a library 1 Launch Suitcase Fusion 2 Select any item containing fonts your hard drive CDs flash drives network volumes folders or files 3 Drag your selection into the Fonts pane to add them to the selected library You can also drag fonts onto a library name or into a set within a library 21 Adding folders as sets To retain any current organization you have for fonts for example if you have folders of fonts for specific projects you can add the fonts as sets Each folder becomes a set with the same name and contents as the folder To add fonts as a set do one of the following e Choose File gt Add Fonts Use the Choose fonts to add to library name dialog to locate and select a folder of fonts then click Add A set is automatically created from the folder you select
122. ug ins save detailed Font Sense data within documents and then use that information to auto activate fonts in documents as you open them Font Sense technology generates the metadata which includes the font s name and other information such as its type foundry version and other important font information In general use Font Sense for superior automatic font activation To disable it uncheck the Enable Font Sense support option For more information see Font Sense on page 42 Picking the best match when the original font is missing Sometimes an original font may be missing or may become damaged By default when you re using automatic activation and this occurs the plug in automatically picks what it considers to be the best font If you prefer to resolve this situation yourself disable Pick best match when original is missing See Best fonts on page 44 Activating fonts in embedded objects When Activate fonts in embedded objects is enabled the plug ins look at the Font Sense metadata saved with Illustrator EPS and Photoshop PSD documents to auto activate fonts When this feature is disabled as it is by default the plug ins still scan graphics for fonts but will only identify fonts by name NOTE Currently only Adobe Illustrator EPS files and Adobe Photoshop PSD files with unrasterized text layers are saved with Font Sense metadata Activating entire font families By default the Suitcase Fusion auto activation plug ins a
123. ugh Suitcase Fusion If you do not know the exact fonts used in the document you can let the plug ins activate the best fonts or choose the fonts manually Start the design application make sure the plug in is enabled then open the document Make a small change to the document and save it This records the Font Sense metadata within the document NOTE If you are hesitant to make a change in a document you can use Save As to save the file in the same location with the same name replacing the original when prompted This will also add the Font Sense metadata to the file Use the Make Document Set command to create a set for the document Make Document Set is available from the Type gt Suitcase Fusion menu in Adobe Illustrator InCopy and InDesign and from the Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion menu in QuarkXPress In Adobe Photoshop the Make Document Set command is accessed from the Extensis dialog choose File gt Automate gt Extensis to open the dialog Collect all of the fonts in the active set and be sure that all users in the workflow add those fonts to Suitcase Fusion before opening the document a Recommended Reading Extensis guides Font Management in Mac OS X Best Practices Guide http www extensis com downloads documents font management mac best practices Best practice recommendations for efficiently working with fonts in professional workflows Server Based Font Management Best Practices Guide http www ext
124. utline fonts can include hints to improve consistency and legibility at small sizes Also called scalable font or vector font OpenType TrueType and PostScript Type 1 are examples of outline fonts See also hinting p permanent activation To make a font available to all applications until it is purposefully deactivated even through computer restarts personal workgroup A workgroup available through Universal Type Client for an individual user Personal workgroups can be used for adding personal fonts fonts for single person jobs and also for adding potential problem or corrupt fonts for analysis A client based personal workgroup is stored on the user s computer and is only available on that computer until the user disconnects from the Universal Type Server A server based personal workgroup is stored on the Universal Type Server and is available on any system the user logs in to pi font A font made up of symbols and characters unrelated to a specific language This can include mathematical symbols currency symbols and dingbats The term stems from the fact that typesetters would occasionally need access to the n symbol but if it did not exist in their font they would go to a separate set of specialty characters Sometimes used to refer to a dingbat font pica In typography a unit of measure equal to 1 72 of a foot or 1 6 inch The size of the pica varied between countries and as the size of a foot varied until the co
125. uto activation plug ins installing 42 automatic system font replacement 10 B backing up your Font Vault 49 best font match for missing original 44 best font match preference setting 45 C caches cleaning 51 changing Font Vaults 50 character selector 40 Check Document Fonts 44 check for updates to Suitcase Fusion 20 choosing a set of attributes 28 classification 28 cleaning font caches 51 closing floating previews 37 Collect Fonts for Output 25 collecting fonts 25 from design applications 25 from Suitcase Fusion 25 using drag and drop 25 colors for preview 36 columns 29 composition view See QuickComp conflicting fonts 24 contacting Extensis 63 Convert to Application Set 28 copying fonts between sets 27 Core Font Management 14 corrupt fonts 23 Create Document Set 44 creating a new Font Vault 50 creating a new library 21 criteria search 29 in smart sets 30 custom attributes 28 custom font groups in the Font Panel 46 customizing Web View 38 D deactivating auto activated fonts 44 deactivating fonts 32 in a floating preview 37 in the Font Panel 46 Delete from Set 27 64 Delete Set 27 deleting fonts 25 Details Panel 15 in Main window 13 showing and hiding 12 disabling Google fonts 35 display columns 29 documents scanning for fonts 43 duplicate fonts 24 E Edit Smart Set 30 editing custom attributes 28 embedded graphics
126. ws the glyphs that you double clicked recently making it easy to revisit them This shows glyphs from different fonts so selecting one of these glyphs will automatically select its font Show Choose the subset of the font to display These correspond to Unicode character blocks Note that any individual font may not include characters in all these code blocks and that Unicode include many code blocks not displayed here including many language specific code blocks Braille Patterns and Dingbats among many others e Entire Font This shows all glyphs in the font e Alphabetic Presentation Forms Code block FBoo FB4F This includes Latin ligatures Armenian ligatures and Hebrew presentation forms e Basic Latin 0000 007F This code block includes control characters and the ASCII character set e Combining Diacritical Marks 0300 036F This includes bare diacritic marks that are typically combined with other characters to form an accented character e Currency Symbols 2040 20CF This block contains many international currency symbols Note that other common currency symbols such as the dollar sign pound sign and yen sign Y appear in other code blocks e Cyrillic 0400 04FF This includes the Russian alphabet and assorted historic letters symbols and extensions e General Punctuation 2000 206F This block includes typographic symbols and international punctuation as well as formatting characters such as
127. xcept Web View NOTE QuickMatch uses the characters in the preview text to match against if there are characteristic letters in the font you are matching add those or enter those in the preview text 3 Choose Edit gt QuickMatch The Preview pane shows the fonts from all available libraries that most closely resemble the selected font At this point you can e Change the number of results displayed using the Results drop down menu above the previews e Choose a different library to match against e Select another font from the Fonts pane the QuickMatch results will be updated automatically e Select a font in the Preview pane and add it to a set or a WebINK project or perform a QuickMatch using it as the font to match against Smart sets A Smart Set is a special kind of set that updates automatically according to criteria that you define If you tend to search for the same fonts again and again all OpenType PS from Font Haus for example you can create a smart set In this case the smart set will display all the fonts in the library for which the Type is OpenType PS and the Foundry is Font Haus To create a smart set e From Find criteria Choose Edit gt Find Fonts Specify the Find criteria then click the Save button Double click the new smart set name in the Libraries pane to rename it e From scratch Choose File gt New Smart Set In the Find pane specify the Find criteria and double click the new smart set in the Lib
128. xpand to show its subsets and the Fonts pane Preview pane and Details Panel will change e For more on libraries see Librarieson page 21 e For more information on sets see Setson page 27 Previews pane The Previews pane shows a preview of the selected fonts You can choose among several types of previews ABC 123 Waterfall Paragraph and QuickType Depending on the type of preview selected you can change background and text color the text to preview and text size QuickComp and Web View offer a number of other options e For more on previews see Traditional previewson page 36 QuickCompon page 38 and Web Viewon page 38 Fonts pane For most Preview types the Fonts pane shows a list of fonts with several columns of information Fonts can be activated or deactivated from this pane you can choose the information columns to display and the order they appear and you can sort the font list by any of the columns e For information about activating fonts see Activating fontson page 32 e For information about displaying columns in the font list see Sorting fontson page 29 For QuickComp and Web View fonts are displayed as small thumbnails Since these previews are primarily for displaying fonts in different contexts rather than choosing fonts for activation it is more practical to get a small preview of each font rather than a listing of fonts and their attributes Details Panel The Details Panel has changed dramatically from p
129. xt size 36 preview QuickComp 38 previewing fonts 36 traditional previews 36 Previews pane 13 printing 41 showing and hiding 12 problems 23 Q QuarkXPress collecting fonts from 25 creating a document set 44 installing plug in 42 plug in preferences 45 selecting a library 43 QuickComp 38 what s new 11 QuickFind 30 QuickMatch 30 QuickType preview 36 R register Suitcase Fusion 10 regrouping font families 26 removing attributes 28 removing fonts 25 replacement fonts 44 preference setting for missing fonts 45 required system fonts 17 Restore Families 26 restoring original attributes 28 restoring warnings 51 S scanning documents for fonts 43 search criteria 29 in smart sets 30 searching for fonts 29 searching for fonts with QuickFind 30 searching for similar fonts 30 selecting a Font Vault 50 serial number entering 10 sets 27 activating 32 adding folders as 22 adding fonts from the desktop 27 adding fonts to 27 copying fonts between 27 copying to another library 27 creating from a document 44 creating from a folder of fonts 27 creating from selection 27 deleting 27 exporting and importing 27 moving fonts between 27 new 27 removing fonts from 27 renaming 27 showing and hiding previews 12 showing and hiding the Details Panel 12 showing and hiding the fonts list 12 showing and hiding the toolbar 12 showing attributes 28 showi
130. y manage these files with Suitcase Fusion including adding or deleting fonts copying collecting fonts previewing fonts and of course activating fonts e The Font Vault can be backed up to a remote location and restored in case of emergency If you currently organize your fonts with folders on disk upgrading to the Font Vault gives you access to all of the organizational features of Suitcase Fusion You no longer need to manually move font files from one folder to another In addition Suitcase Fusion provides excellent organization automatically when collecting files for output Collected fonts are logically organized into families and can even be further organized by sets that you ve created For complete font security and reliability Extensis recommends using the Font Vault 16 Macintosh system fonts Suitcase Fusion lists your computer s system fonts in a special System Fonts library These fonts reside in the Mac OS X system font folders and are activated by the operating system System fonts are shown in sets depending on their location on your computer Set Name Location on Disk Description System System Library Fonts Fonts used by OS X and available to all users of the system In general these fonts should be left alone Local Library Fonts This folder contains fonts available to any user who logs on to the computer This folder may contain fonts that are installed by third party applications User Library Fonts
131. you close documents or shut down your computer Creating a set from an open document The Suitcase Fusion auto activation plug ins add a Create Document Set command directly to the application This creates a set consisting of all the fonts applied to text on printing pages in the active document or layout For example a 20 page newsletter created using InDesign might use many diverse fonts Creating a set in Suitcase Fusion and then locating and adding each font to it would be difficult and time consuming The auto activation plug ins can find the fonts and create the set automatically The set will be built from the fonts available in the current library To create a set from a document 1 Open a document and make sure all the fonts are active In QuarkXPress open a project and select a layout 2 Select the desired library In Adobe Photoshop choose File gt Automate gt Extensis and choose a library from the Select Library drop down menu In Adobe InDesign InCopy or Illustrator choose Type gt Suitcase Fusion gt Library and select a library In QuarkXPress choose Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion gt Library and select a library 3 Choose Create Document Set from the Extensis dialog in Photoshop the Type gt Suitcase Fusion submenu in Illustrator InCopy and InDesign or the Utilities gt Suitcase Fusion submenu in QuarkXPress 4 Type a name for the set Click OK If the fonts in the document change be sure to

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