Extensishas announced the release of Suitcase Fusion 3 , an rising slope of the company ’s professional font management program .
The Modern reading features an update interface , font auto - activating plug - IN for Adobe InDesign CS5 , Photoshop CS4 and CS5 , and Illustrator CS5 , and diligence sets that activate selected fount when a peculiar program is launched .
Also new to Suitcase Fusion 3 are Font Snapshots , a feature which lets user create font previews in PNG format to view and divvy up with node ; and Web Preview , which lets decorator see how a baptistery will look within a Web design without having to drop a line the code . QuickMatch , Suitcase Fusion 3 ’s font comparison technology , assist in find like fonts in your library . interlingual rendition 3 also offers a font cache cleaner that can clear out the font caches of Adobe app , QuarkXPress , Microsoft Office , and Mac OS ecstasy organisation case . The app is now localized in French , German , Nipponese , Italian , Spanish , Brazilian , and Portuguese .
All version of Suitcase Fusion 3 admit a gratis copy of FontDoctor 8 , the tardy version of the utility , which supply additional puppet for font corruption spotting , repair , and register organization .
WebINK
A important newfangled addition to Suitcase Fusion 3 is integration with its raw swarm - based font rental service , WebINK .
WebINK let designers select , carry off , and expend custom fonts for their Websites without vexation for supported font formats or font licensing issues . WebINK fonts can be bring off either online or via the desktop through Suitcase Fusion 3 .
It works like this : interior designer choose their typeface from the Extensis service , which then generates the necessary CSS coding to use with that font on their site . Site visitors can then see the chosen fonts , in the correct format for their browser app , from a safe Extensis server .
Up until now , Web designers have had extremely limited typographic choices on the vane . face choices were confined to the few received fonts instal on a reader ’s machine , and if you wanted custom fonts , you had to render them as electrostatic images or employ JavaScript coding — none of which is optimal for text display . WebINK makes professional - quality typography accessible for most browsers without JavaScript or other programming hacks , the company says .
“ Enabling WebINK in Suitcase Fusion 3 is a logical footfall toward consummate font controller across print and internet , ” said Thomas Phinney , senior Cartesian product manager for font solution at Extensis . “ The prolongation of desktop font management to the Web fold the loop-the-loop on many of the cross - media challenges — and creative forfeit — that advanced interior designer confront . ”
To launch WebINK , Extensis has formed partnerships with well - known type foundry whose high - quality fonts will be available to rent . New partner foundry and fonts are being added every week , according to the troupe . “ This includes both industriousness - standard fonts previously unavailable for use on the Web , as well as fresh face from today ’s top interior decorator , ” Phinney said . WebINK is available in English , French , and German at launch .
Suitcase Fusion 3 is $ 100 , and rise from the previous version are $ 50 . user who cross-file Suitcase Fusion 3 by December 31 , 2010 will meet one year of the WebINK service of process for spare . contingent about thefree WebINK promotionare useable on the society ’s Website . The desktop software run on both PowerPC and Intel systems and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher . WebINK runs on Safari 3.1 or high , Firefox 3.5 or higher , Chrome 4 or higher , and Internet Explorer 4 or higher .
