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 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.
USING SUITCASE FUSION PDF
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. Previous versions of Suitcase, Fusion 2 no longer supports management of OS X’s System fonts. The problem is that few if any font managers played well with the new format, causing a host of font conflict issues. dfont format, a single font file containing both the data and resource forks, specifically to work with OS X’s Unix underpinnings. To make matters worse, Apple created the.
In particular, OS X installs a large amount of fonts in a myriad of locations on your hard drive. Font management in OSX has always been a bit of a headache.
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