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Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc.
Suitcase Fusion 4 is the creative professional's font manager:
- Complete control over your fonts - desktop and the web
- Powerful preview technologies
- WebINK enabled for web fonts
- There when you need it, the Suitcase Fusion Core runs in the background, for critical activation and deactivation
- Built using Universal Type Server technology
What's New
Version 15.0.0:
Note: Suitcase Fusion 4 is a $49.95 paid upgrade from Suitcase Fusion 2 or 3.
- This release brings Extensis font panels inside InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, Favorites, custom colors for previews, an auto-activation plug-in for InCopy, support for Google Web Fonts, Font Digests (custom font lists), interface updates, and other changes.
Version 15.0.0:
Note: Suitcase Fusion 4 is a $49.95 paid upgrade from Suitcase Fusion 2 or 3.
- This release brings Extensis font panels inside InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, Favorites, custom colors for previews, an auto-activation plug-in for InCopy, support for Google Web more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
Suitcase Fusion 4 User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:127,159 |
| Version Downloads:1,167 |
| Type:Utilities : Font Tools |
| License:Demo |
| Date:19 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $99.95 |
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Suitcase Fusion 4 is the creative professional's font manager:
- Complete control over your fonts - desktop and the web
- Powerful preview technologies
- WebINK enabled for web fonts
- There when you need it, the Suitcase Fusion Core runs in the background, for critical activation and deactivation
- Built using Universal Type Server technology
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Firstly, the new icon looks truly awful for a 'designer's tool' and why is it lowres in 2012? Secondly, the 'new' set of features are very thin on the ground. Sure, the new Adobe plug-ins look interesting but are they really necessary and how will they affect the stability of my already shaky Adobe app? I'm really torn with this update. Version 14.2 is running spectacularly well at the moment on Lion with CS5 and CS5.5 and I don't know if I want to fork out yet another $49 for such a minimal feature set and a new voyage into the unknown with stability. Extensis need to work a little harder for my upgrade fee next year.
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14.2.0 file date on the linked download is October 2011. Same as the one I had installed.
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Dlwhite reviewed on 05 Feb 2012
But the actual current version is 14.2.0
What gives?
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So far (and I really mean so far) the release has been fairly solid. I've given it a full week of production based testing in the design studio and I've yet to experience anything like a FMcore crash. This is maybe something to do with them removing the pref pane and making it part of the app but something seems to have changed for the better. Fingers crossed and somewhat hopeful.
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Dualie reviewed on 14 Sep 2011
Yay!
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Trashie reviewed on 01 Aug 2011
Still this is a more professional way.
Guess it depends what you do.
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Davidravenmoon reviewed on 30 Jul 2011
And of course no CS 5.5 support.
This update seems to address both issues.
One thing I'd like to mention is from my experience in pre-press, I leave auto activation turned off, and I add fonts leaving them in place. This prevents font conflicts with customer files. I also remove any unnecessary files from the system library.
At home for design work, I leave auto activation on, and leave add fonts in place on. I don't use the font vault since my fonts are on a second hard drive.
Even with some minor issues, this is still the best font manager for the Mac. It has no issues with creating font sets with the files located on a file server for instance. You can't do that with FontExplorer X.
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Designer reviewed on 27 Apr 2011
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Dualie reviewed on 08 Apr 2011
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I also don't use the plugins for Photoshop CS5x or Illustrator CS5x as they are extremely buggy. I just add the apps to the preferences and turn off the plugins. ID CS4-5x doesn't seem to have this issue.
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Installer fails every time. I have never installed this tool before. I used Pacifist to extract the application.
When I try to use demo it tells me that the FMCore is incompatible. WTF? Suitcase Fusion installed it and why is it installing an incompatible version!!
Mac OS X 10.6.4 with all the latest Apple updates.
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Download it from Extensis directly. That fixed all both problems for me.
Good luck.
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I installed SFC3. I started the app with demo, but don't work.
I get this message:
Unable to start the Suitcase Fusion Core.
Suitcase Fusion has detected an incompatible version of FMCore.
Suitcase Fusion can not continue.
How can I uninstall, or delete older version of SFC?
Since I have installed Fusion I can no longer view PDFs with Apple's Preview when I export a PDF from InDesign CS2.
Response from Extensis:
This is something we have noticed with Fusion, and we are investigating it now. There is a workaround: In the preferences for the Suitcase plug-in, disable the FontSense option and your PDFs should work fine in Preview (you can always turn it back on after the PDF is exported).
As soon as there is a permanent fix or a more effective workaround, you will see that information posted on our website.
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P-Crossbow rated on 19 Jan 2011
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