![]() ![]() Suitcase Fusion 5 includes auto-activation plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and InCopy. That said, there are some noteworthy new features. What’s new in version 5?Īs with many applications that have been around for a while, Suitcase Fusion 5 is an evolutionary upgrade, not a revolutionary one. This is a real timesaver especially early on in the creative process where a lot of experimenting is going to take place. Photoshop users can access fonts from Extensis’ web font service, WebInk to easily create comps for web sites. Activating a font is just a click or two away from Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign (CS4 and later). The Extensis panels introduced in Suitcase Fusion 4 are back in version 5 as well and just as handy as ever providing easy access to your complete font library plus Google web fonts. Just right-click on the font or the set and choose Collect Fonts for Output (you’ll want to check the license before sending the fonts anywhere). Open the Suitcase Fusion 5 menu from InDesign or Illustrator (this feature is available in Photoshop as well, but is located under the File > Automate menu) and choose Creative Document Set.Ĭollecting the font files from Suitcase Fusion 5 is also snap. You can set as many conditions as you’d like and choose to match any of them or all of them.ĭid you ever wish you could create a set from fonts those used in a particular document? Piece of cake. The screenshot below shows a smart set based on Garamond being in the name: Smart sets continue to be an easy way to group fonts by searching for common attributes such as a word in the font name. Temporarily activated fonts will not be activated the next time you start your computer, saving you the trouble of deactivating them manually. ![]() Taking that one step further, you can activate the fonts permanently or temporarily. ![]() Suitcase Fusion makes this simple by allowing the creation of font sets and the ability to activate fonts with a simple mouse click. I have a license for Adobe’s Font Folio and scores of others, so with more than 6,000 fonts on my computer I rely heavily on Suitcase extensively to manage them. Recently I upgraded to version 5, and found that it offers some interesting new features, while remaining an indispensable part of my digital toolset. I first started using Suitcase Fusion when version 3 was released about three years ago. ![]()
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