12/28/2023 0 Comments Suitcase fusion 6 yosemiteIf you’ve recently upgraded your OS, or are thinking of doing so, this alone makes the upgrade to Suitcase Fusion 6 worthwhile to avoid incompatibilities. The interface has been tweaked enough to notice-especially the flat UI– but it will still feel familiar to upgraders. If you’re running it on a Mac Retina display you should notice sharper previews. Unfortunately, I don’t have Retina hardware available to test this on. It’s a snap to activate and deactivate fonts from within the application and auto-activation plugins are installed automatically for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and InCopy CS5 through CC2014 (note that CS4 and earlier are no longer supported). QuarkXpress versions 9 and 10 are also supported. With Extensis panels that are added to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, activation can even be accomplished without ever leaving those friendly confines. Speaking of those panels they are now HTML5-based and noticeably faster and more responsive then the previous Flex-based panels. I used to leave them off most of the time but have added them to some of my saved workspaces to make accessing them quicker.įont sets (groups of fonts) can be created easily by dragging and dropping fonts from the preview window. Once created, activation is a simple click. As with all font activations, you have a choice to activate temporarily (until you restart your computer) or permanently. Suitcase Fusion is not just about font activation. It has a nice array of features that can inspire you and make it easier to collaborate with others. How many times have you needed to send a font sample to a client? I like to change the view of the font samples to paragraph, copy/paste in some text from a project, and then drag the small camera icon to the desktop. This creates a PNG file that can be emailed for review. Need to compare fonts as they might look in a layout? Switch the preview mode to QuickComp and choose from 26 different layouts that can be changed by clicking on sections and choosing a font. Those layouts can be printed out from the application, but as I noted in my review for Suitcase Fusion 5, this feature seems a bit incomplete without a PDF export. If you’re feeling the need for a creative spark, there’s a “Fontspiration” window.
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