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In version 12, I used the “alias” feature extensively to develop sets of client and project fonts. Over the years, I’ve defined many sets in Suitcase. The newest version appears to be just about everything I’d want, except for one thing.
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I’ve been a Suitcase user since my first Mac back in the ’90s, and have grown up with its quirks. I’m not yet using CS4, but I did upgrade Suitcase Fusion (first gen) to version 2. There’s a feature in FEX called “Deactivate all fonts which have been activated during the current session at quit” that might be something akin to Suitcase’s temporary fonts–haven’t tried it. As long as you throw them into job sets as you go, you should be able to easily remove them from FEX’s library when you’re done using them too. You’ve pretty much got it behaving exactly like Suitcase where it can manage multiple variants of the same font and doesn’t get in your way with autoactivation. – Add same fonts on different path as duplicates (Import) – Remove and reimport fonts on the same path (Import) – Not intercept font requests (Font Requests)
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I much prefer to use exactly the job fonts provided by the client rather than having the font activator choose a random duplicate from the library that may or may not be a perfect match. (Although I don’t think FEX is CS4 compatible, at least it’s free.) Mind you, if you start having more than one version of the same font in your library at once there’s no way you should be tinkering with autoactivation any longer imho.
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Having not tested Suitcase for Windows with InDesign CS4, I am not sure if an upgrade is even necessary. As of this posting, Extensis has not yet released a CS4 upgrade for Suitcase for Windows. Extensis did release a Windows compatible version of Suitcase, titled Suitcase for Windows (not “Fusion”), which contains less features, but does include auto activation, which is very rare in Windows font managers, (and yes, it works well).
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Note that both versions of Suitcase Fusion are only available for ID users on the Mac OS X platform.
There also other features unique to Fusion, such as the ability to add fonts temporarily, which I find very useful. Font auto activation with Fusion has always worked well for me and I’ve never had a problem with it. A font manager (my favorite being Suitcase Fusion), helps me avoid slowing down my system and resolves duplicate font issues. If you’re working with this many fonts, it’s not healthy for your OS to keep them active all the time. I have so many versions of Helvetica and Times that it’s embarrassing, really. Not only do I own a huge collection of fonts that I’ve assembled over the years and use often in my own creative work, but I’ve also acquired fonts from outside sources, such as advertisers and other designers who have provided native InDesign documents (as well as Illustrator and Quark docs) for me to output. Having worked predominantly in print design for mostly newsstand and business-to-business trade publications, I’ve been forced to deal with a lot of fonts. If you’re a designer who rarely opens files from outside sources, and who is perfectly content with using the fonts that are installed with the Creative Suite and your system software, then auto activation and font managers in general might be an unnecessary added expense. If you deal with a lot of fonts on a daily basis, especially if you’re constantly opening ID files from outside sources, or from other members of a design team, then I think auto activation is absolutely essential.
I think it depends on what type of work you’re doing in InDesign. Is font auto activation really necessary? Is it worth the $49.98 upgrade to Fusion 2? David would probably say no, but I disagree. So this brings up a popular argument here at IDS. If you’re not using auto activation, then you’re ultimately responsible for making sure you turn on the correct version of Helvetica next time you open a font-filled InDesign file. Suitcase Fusion’s auto activation feature relies on a plug-in that must be installed in your InDesign application Plug-ins folder. However, you will not be able to use auto activation, which allows Suitcase to automatically locate any fonts present in your InDesign documents and activate them for you. I’ve been using the previous version of Suitcase Fusion, and it appears as though you can still use it to manually activate fonts on your system and then access them from the font menu in InDesign CS4. Unfortunately, if you’d like to continue using auto font activation with InDesign CS4, then you must pay for the Suitcase Fusion 2 upgrade ($49.98).
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Extensis apparently will not be offering a free upgrade to Suitcase Fusion users who have upgraded to CS4.