However, taking that approach gives up several advantages, not the least of which is having one single database file that includes all your corruption-free fonts, keywords, and other metadata for easy backup.įusion 2’s “tear off” font preview gives you a movable semi-opaque preview window of a font.Among one of Fusion 2’s handy features is the ability to “tear off” font previews, which creates a small window with your font preview in it (shown above). You don’t have to import fonts into the Fusion database, though you can choose to leave fonts in folders on your drive. Surprisingly, the process didn’t take long at all-about 6 to 8 minutes in my admittedly loosely timed experience. With more than 3,000 fonts, I expected to drag my font folder into the Fusion window and go to lunch while it checked all the fonts for corruption and imported them into the Fusion database. Of course, this isn’t the best way to get what I want because many italic serif fonts don’t have those words in their name, but you get the idea. In the image to the right, I’m creating a Smart Set of all my fonts with the name serif and italics. You can create sets of all your script fonts, or fonts with specific keywords. Smart sets are sets of fonts Fusion creates based on the data you specify. Across the bottom ,you’ll find controls allowing you to create font sets and smart sets and apply various settings to customize the preview pane. On the right side of Fusion’s main window, you’ll see the font list on the top, and the preview pane on the bottom. An Attributes panel below that lets assign keywords, styles and classifications to your fonts to help you find what you’re looking for in future searches. Down the left side, you’ll find the font source list, which contains a list of all the fonts in the database as well as any sets or smart sets you create. And finally, there’s a search input box where you can search for fonts in Fusion’s database by name, foundry, classification, or font type. Off to the right are two icons to toggle the preview pane on and off.
The Suitcase Fusion 2 interfaceThree colored buttons reside in Fusion’s toolbar: permanent activation, temporary activation, and deactivate. These include Collect for Output and Print Preview, which prints font specimen sheets from selected fonts. Any feature that isn’t found in Fusion 2’s main window can be accomplished with a keyboard shortcut. In fact, I couldn’t find a reason to ever click a menu item. The interface is clean and simple to use, making much less use of menus to accomplish management tasks. Suitcase Fusion 2 borrows its user interface from Universal Type Server’s client software. In fact, the only time you have to actually open Fusion is to add or remove fonts from the database or activate new fonts that aren’t already used in your document. I love not having yet another application running all the time. Thanks to the Fusion Core preference pane, font activation is handled by Fusion in the background. Suitcase Fusion 2’s Core preference panel can be set to have font activation run in the background.Īlso unlike previous versions, Fusion 2 does not have to be running in order to do its job.
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You can download an informative PDF from Extensis’ Web site covering best practices for fonts in Leopard. I suspect that Extensis also assumed that users who need font management probably know they can manually remove most fonts safely with only the need for an administrator password. Management of System fonts never worked well in any font manager I’ve tried, and was tedious at best in previous versions of Suitcase. While it may appear that Extensis just tossed their hands in the air and gave up, I consider it a huge plus. You can, however, still manage Local fonts stored in either Library/Font folder. System fonts are listed in the source list in Fusion, but you can’t deactivate them. Unlike previous versions of Suitcase, Fusion 2 no longer supports management of OS X’s System fonts.
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