Suitcase Fusion User Guide
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Suitcase Fusion v21.1 ❧ 30 June 2020 - ii - Contents Getting started 5 System requirements 5 What’s new 5 Quick installation guide 6 The Suitcase Fusion window 7 Fonts 9 Adding and removing fonts 9 Activation and deactivation 12 The Fonts pane 14 Organization 17 Collections 17 Sets 19 Families 20 Copying and moving fonts 23 Sorting fonts 24 Searching for fonts and characters 24 Using metadata to organize your fonts 27 Editing font info 30 Glyphs 33 Plug-ins 35 Auto-activation plug-ins 35 Extensis Font Panel 40 Document tracking 41 Third-party fonts 46 Adobe Fonts 46 Google Fonts 47 Sharing 48 Multiple licenses 48 TypeSync: Sharing fonts with yourself 48 TeamSync: Sharing fonts on a team 51 Cross-platform font issues 52 Maintenance 53 Backing up your fonts 53 Resolving problems 54 Cleaning font caches 55 - iii - Removing Suitcase Fusion 56 Quick Start Guide 57 Overview 57 Back up your system 57 Gather your fonts 58 Update your software 62 Other font managers 62 Install Suitcase Fusion 64 First-time launch 66 After you upgrade 68 Add more fonts 70 Reference 71 Font management basics 71 Type terminology 72 Suitcase Fusion concepts 77 Preferences 79 Mac shortcuts 83 Windows shortcuts 84 Font lists 85 Extra fonts in macOS 85 Extra fonts for Windows 10 88 Contacting Extensis 90 Support 91 Extensis EULA 93 Index 97 - iv - Getting started System requirements For complete system requirements, release notes, and other information, see Suitcase Fusion Support. Macintosh n macOS™ 10.13 through 10.15 n Safari® 9 or later or the current release of Firefox® or Chrome™, for viewing Help Suitcase Fusion is completely 64-bit, optimized for macOS 10.13.4 and later. Windows n Windows® 7 SP1 or Windows 10 n Microsoft® .NET Framework version 4.5.1 or later (installed automatically if not already present) n Internet Explorer® 10 or later, Microsoft Edge, or the current release of Firefox or Chrome, for viewing Help NOTES n Some features require an Internet connection. n Suitcase Fusion requires a 64-bit operating system. n Suitcase Fusion does not support Windows 8/8.1. n Suitcase Fusion does not include auto-activation XTensions for QuarkXPress. What’s new View release notes for the current version of Suitcase Fusion at Suitcase Fusion Release Notes. Version 21.1 n In this release of Suitcase Fusion we introduce an optional split pane view for fonts. In addition to the preview-only Fonts pane, you can switch to a split-pane view with Previews on the top and a columnar Font List on the bottom. This has changed how some features of Suitcase Fusion work; for details, see The Fonts pane on page 14. n We have added support for Dark Mode on macOS. Version 21.0.1 Suitcase Fusion no longer works directly with Monotype™ Mosaic or SkyFonts™. Suitcase Fusion Support: https://www.extensis.com/support/suitcase-fusion-21/ Suitcase Fusion Release Notes: https://www.extensis.com/support/suitcase-fusion-21/release-notes/ - 5 - Version 21.0.0 Document Collecting For any tracked document, you can gather the document, the fonts that the document uses, and any linked documents and images together into a folder. This allows you to gather documents and resources for distribution, which is especially useful if the document’s application does not have its own “collect” feature. Other new features n Auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe Creative Cloud 2020 releases of After Effects, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, and Photoshop. n The Extensis Font Panel for Adobe CC 2020 releases of Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. n Auto-activation plug-in and document tracking for Sketch. n Document tracking for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher. n User Management: This allows you to assign and re-assign licenses for multiple Suitcase purchases. Recent releases n Document Tags n Advanced Find and Smart Search n Document Tracking Quick installation guide If you just want to jump in and get going with Suitcase Fusion, you’ve come to the right place. If you want to take things more methodically, please see Overview on page 57. 1. Check the system requirements. You need to be running macOS 10.13 or later, or Windows 10. See System requirements on the previous page for details. 2. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Suitcase Fusion, archive your Font Vault. This will allow you to revert easily to the older version. See Archive your Font Vault on page 65. 3. Disable or uninstall any other font manager. If you are running Suitcase Fusion 6 (version 17.x) or later, you can just stop the Type Core and continue. (We recommend that you uninstall an older version but it is not required.) If you are running Universal Type Server or a different font manager, uninstall it or disable it before running Suitcase Fusion. See Other font managers on page 62 for instructions. 4. Download the Suitcase Fusion installer. Get it from Suitcase Fusion Support. 5. Install the application. On Mac, open the disk image and drag the Suitcase Fusion icon into your Applications folder. On Windows, run the installer and follow the instructions. 6. Start Suitcase Fusion. If you are not upgrading an older version, when you start Suitcase Fusion for the first time it will present the setup wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the setup. See First-time launch on page 66 for details on the setup wizard. If you have upgraded from an older version of Suitcase Fusion, then Suitcase Fusion will back up your database and update your plug-ins. See After you upgrade on page 68 for details on upgrading. Suitcase Fusion Support: https://www.extensis.com/support/suitcase-fusion-21/ - 6 - The Suitcase Fusion window The Suitcase Fusion window is divided into three sections: the toolbar at the top, the Collections pane on the left, and the Fonts pane on the right. A: Toolbar B: Collections pane C: Fonts pane A. Toolbar The toolbar provides access to important functionality, including font activation, creating new font groupings, editing font attributes, QuickMatch, the Glyphs pane, showing or hiding the Font List in the Fonts pane, and QuickFind. To modify the toolbar: n In Windows, choose View > Hide Toolbar Text to remove labels and reduce the size of toolbar icons. n In macOS, right-click on the toolbar to show icons, labels, or both, change the icon and text size, and customize what appears on the toolbar. n In macOS, you can also choose View > Hide Toolbar to hide the toolbar completely. Activation Quickly activate or deactivate a font selection. See Activation and deactivation on page 12. Font groupings Use these buttons to create a new local library, a new set within any library (or within another set), or a new Smart Search that can quickly find fonts by given criteria in any or all of your libraries. See Collections on page 17, Sets on page 19, and Advanced Find on page 25. Editing attributes Modify the metadata associated with any font. See Using metadata to organize your fonts on page 27. QuickMatch Identify fonts from any library that looks like the selected font. See QuickMatch on page 26. The Glyphs pane View all the glyphs in a specific font, and search for glyphs by name. See Finding glyphs on page 26. Font List Show or hide the Font List. See The Fonts pane on page 14. - 7 - QuickFind Find fonts that include a specific string in their name or other metadata. See QuickFind on page 25.