The “missing fonts” dialog box is the bane of many a designer’s existence. If you’ve done any work with Adobe InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop or QuarkXPress, surely your workflow has been slowed to a halt by it.

If you use Suitcase Fusion 4, we’ve done away with this nuisance through auto-activation plug-ins.

When you open a document in one of the supported applications, the plug-in scans the document and before it’s opened, the precise fonts required for the document are opened by Suitcase Fusion.

The plug-ins do this through the use of patented Font Sense technology. Basically, each font as it’s added to Suitcase Fusion is scanned for its unique metrics and given a Font Sense ID. When you use a font in a document, that font’s ID is embedded by the plug-in into the document header. When the document is opened by you, or anyone else using the auto-activation plug-ins, the precise fonts required are always activated.

Plug-ins are automatically installed for all supported applications when you install Suitcase Fusion 4. To install and remove the auto-activation plug-ins manually, use the plug-in manager from Suitcase Fusion > Manage Plug-ins (Mac) or Tools > Manage Plug-ins (Win).

Place/remove the check by the plug-in to install/remove the plug-in.

Plug-ins are available for the most common professional design applications. Suitcase Fusion 4 includes plug-ins for:

• Adobe InCopy CS4, CS5, CS5.5
• Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.1 (included in Creative Suite 5.5)
• Adobe InDesign CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5
• Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS5.1 (included in Creative Suite 5.5)
• QuarkXPress 7, 8, 9

*Adobe Creative Suite 6 plug-ins are currently in development and will be released in a free update to Suitcase Fusion 4 when available.

Updates can be downloaded automatically by enabling the Check for Updates preference. Choose Suitcase Fusion > Preferences (Mac) or Tools > Preferences (Win) to enable this preference.

Digital Asset Management is a great way to centralize all of your organization’s images, videos and documents in one location so you can quickly find and use the right files.

However, if your assets aren’t connected to the rest of your organization, DAM becomes yet another information silo where information is not easily shared with other business systems. The result is an inefficient duplication of both data storage and data entry.

For DAM to reach its full potential, the benefits of digital asset management must be leveraged throughout the enterprise. To that end, Extensis has created a free Enterprise Digital Asset Management Technology Whitepaper that describes key technologies for integrating DAM into your business.

Click the link below to learn about the Portfolio API, Media Engine Clusters, Directory Integration, and On-Demand File Processing technologies that enable the use of DAM accross the enterprise:

Download the Whitepaper

Starting out in the field of design is incredibly exciting. There are so many new things to discover, learn and explore. One of the important tools in every designer’s toolbox is a varied and interesting collection of fonts.

When you purchase Suitcase Fusion 4, it’s easy to jumpstart your collection with over 870 free fonts from Google Web Fonts.

Simply enable the connection to Google in Suitcase Fusion using File > Enable Google Web Fonts. Suitcase Fusion will then automatically download all of the open-source, royalty free fonts directly from Google.

And the best part is that every time Google adds new fonts, they are automatically downloaded to your collection!

Google Web Fonts can be used in any project – on the web or in print.

The fonts are accessible from the new Extensis Panels in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, or directly from Suitcase Fusion.

So, let your creativity be your guide and build your font collection using free Google Web Fonts.

Download a free trial of Suitcase Fusion 4 to get started.

In diesem Webcast zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie mit dem neuen Suitcase Fusion™ 4 Ihre Schriftbibliotheken direkt aus dem Workflow heraus kontrollieren können.

• 22. Mai 2012
• 11:00 Uhr

Melden Sie sich zu diesem Webcast an!

Diese und weitere Funktionen werden Sie im Webcast kennenlernen:

• NEU: Schriftpaletten für die Aktivierung von Schriften direkt in Adobe® InDesign®, Illustrator® & Photoshop®
• Markierung Ihrer Schriftfavoriten, damit Sie Ihre Lieblingsschriften schnell finden, voranzeigen und nutzen können
• Voranzeige in Farbe, um die Wirkung von Text- und Hintergrundfarben direkt im Vorschaufenster beurteilen zu können
• Plug-ins für die Auto-Aktivierung von Schriften in Adobe InCopy® CS4, CS5 & CS5.5
• KOSTENLOSE Kollektion von Google Web Fonts für die Nutzung in beliebigen Projekten
• Direkte Verbindung zu Web Font-Services

Im Anschluss an die Präsentation steht Ihnen Torsten Köbel, Business Manager von Extensis, live für Fragen zur Verfügung.

You want options when you’re designing web sites. When you’re mocking up a site for a client, you don’t always want to purchase a ton of assets for that site if you’re not sure that the client will approve them. That’a why you use FPO sample images, and why we’ve provided the Web Font Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The plug-in provides free access to thousands of fonts from WebINK, free-of-charge to use in your website mock-ups.

Today we’ve added over 1600 new fonts to the Web Font Plug-in, bringing the total to over 80% of all of the fonts in the collection!

This is a great way to test fonts for your creative projects. Once you’ve selected the fonts that you need, add them to your WebINK projects for use in your final site.

It’s easy to get started. Download the Web Font Plug-in today.