Suitcase Fusion 2 Shakes Up Font Management for Windows
Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., announced the immediate availability of the Windows version of Suitcase Fusion 2, a completely new professional font manager supporting feature parity with its Macintosh counterpart. Windows users are now able to manage fonts with a modern, fast and completely new Suitcase Fusion 2.
“This is a truly huge leap in font management functionality, architecture, and user experience for Windows users,” said Thomas Phinney, Senior Product Manager Font Solutions at Extensis. “Suitcase Fusion 2 is the most modern, stable and reliable font manager available.”
Some of the new features in the Windows version of Suitcase Fusion 2 include:
— Unparalleled font previewing ?
— Highly configurable plug-in based auto-activation for the latest creative professional applications ?
— Modern technology ?
— Portable built-in font vault ?
— Font searching, tagging and classification options ?
— System font management
Suitcase Fusion 2 provides users with outstanding stability and reliability, coupled with a modern interface for working with type. It’s based on Universal Type Server, which allow users to search, activate and browse fonts much faster than before. “To my delight, Fusion 2 has done a remarkable job in stability, speed and usability,” said James Dempsey, Macworld magazine.
Suitcase Fusion 2 offers the same best-in-class font previewing capabilities as the Macintosh version of the product, allowing users to easily browse, compare and select the ideal font for any project. “The real icing on the cake, and what sets this version of Suitcase ahead of the pack, is the preview features it offers,” said Keith Martin, MacUser magazine. Particularly unique is the ability to “tear off” a borderless preview panel from the application and float it over any document, appearing to be part of your layout.
This version offers more plug-in based auto-activation than ever before, including the latest professional creative applications: Adobe Illustrator and InDesign CS2, CS3 and CS4, as well as QuarkXPress 7 and 8. Extensis utilizes Font Sense technology, which remains the only reliable way to handle conflicting font versions, and when combined with Suitcase Fusion 2’s plug-ins it ensures that the right font gets chosen for auto-activation.
Pricing and Availability
The Windows version of Suitcase Fusion 2 is available immediately at an estimated retail price of US $99.95. Upgrade pricing for Suitcase for Windows versions 9 and 11, as well as for standalone Font Reserve 2.6 is available at an estimated retail price of US $49.98.
Suitcase Fusion 2 is available in English, French and German. For more information on Suitcase Fusion 2, visit www.extensis.com/SuitcaseFusion2.
I tried Suitcase for Windows (not Fusion) and liked some things but disliked too many things – it had to be loaded and running every boot up to work (activate fonts), I had to manually remove fonts from Windows/Fonts. Some programs would add fonts to Windows/fonts – even if previously deleted, requiring manual removal almost on a weekly basis… I’m using FontExpert now and find it does same job but works with Windows/Fonts and doesn’t have to be running for fonts to load. Easy to activate/deactivate/tmp activate fonts directly in Windows/Fonts. Fusion 2 may address some of these shortcomings…