Monthly Archives: April 2012
Webcast: What’s New in Suitcase Fusion 4
April 26th, 2012 by Jim Kidwell
Extensis recently released a new version of our flagship single-user font manager, Suitcase Fusion. This version adds a number of features that I’m sure you’ll find helpful and work well in your workflow.
What’s New in Suitcase Fusion 4 – North American Webcast
- Tuesday, May 1, 2012
- 11:00 A.M Pacific / 2:00 P.M. Eastern
- Register for the North American Webcast
What’s New in Suitcase Fusion 4 – European Webcast
- Thursday, May 3, 2012
- 11:00 AM GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00)
- Register for the European Webcast
We will be demoing new features, as well as answering all of your font management questions, including
- NEW Font Panels to activate fonts in Adobe® InDesign®, Illustrator® & Photoshop®
- Select Favorite Fonts to quickly find, preview, and use your “Favorites”
- Preview Colors to see text and backgrounds colors in the preview window
- Auto-activation Plug-ins for Adobe InCopy® CS4, CS5 & CS5.5
- FREE collection of Google Web Fonts for any use in any project
- Custom Font Digests to create and edit custom font lists
- Direct connection to web font services
Professional Services with Chris Stevens
April 24th, 2012 by Alexandra Barltrop
Chris Stevens provides professional services in the UK for Extensis. He is one of our Sales Engineers and has been with us for nine years. Check out below what he has to say about Professional Services and how it could be beneficial for your organisation.
What is the largest and smallest number of assets you have ever encountered?
For Portfolio I’ve encountered 3,000 in the smallest catalogue, 380,000 in the largest. I’ve also seen variations from 700 fonts up to 30,000 fonts on a Universal Type Server.
What is a typical day onsite with Professional Services?
- Morning – get the software installed and IT up to speed on how it all works
- Afternoon – configure the software to meet with customers specific environment
- Also training of the power users
- By the end of the day, this should be enough to be able to start using the software straight away, safe in the knowledge that it’s all covered for backups etc., and also with the knowledge gained to start building on this moving forwards and get it the way they want it.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever come across at a customer site?
I had one install where the Server room was surrounded by thousands of boxes full of merchandise. I’ve never seen so many cardboard boxes in one place before in my life! Also an install that was shooting photography in-house and it was fun trying to concentrate on the software install and training whilst fashion models kept walking past. It is ‘Professional’ services though so I was not unduly affected though may have had the odd glance away from the computer screen!
What’s the most difficult problem you’ve ever had to resolve?
I recall one customer who had over 4,000 duplicate files on their fileserver. It was wasting a lot of disk space, but it was left to me to clean it up and remove the duplicates as part of the service, using Portfolio! I had to compare the 4,000 or so with their duplicates to identify where files were exactly the same picture (size, resolution etc.), or where they were different but shared the same name. Then tidy things up so that they could have a picture library with unique filenames and only one copy of each unique picture. That took a while, but using the Portfolio Client to do help compare files was a lot quicker than any other way I know!
What kind of companies have you implemented Extensis software in?
It’s been quite broad for me. Fashion, Retail, Manufacturers, Media, Governmental, Publishing/Agencies, but the ones I’ve done the most at have been Universities, Heritage & Culture sites and Charities. So I tend to get assigned to those customers again as it’s easier to relate to their situation when you’ve served others in the same industry before.
Why should a customer invest in Extensis Professional Services?
It’s simply the quickest way to get up and running with the software, but more importantly get the knowledge of how the product works and what it can do, without having to teach yourself from manuals and presentations. That one to one interaction where you can ask any question and get an instant answer can save a lot of time which is money saved!
Introducing Suitcase Fusion 4
April 16th, 2012 by Jim Kidwell
Today we are proud to launch the newest version of our professional font manager, Suitcase Fusion 4. We’ve packed it with features that bring your font collection closer to your creative workflow than ever before.
Suitcase Fusion 4 allows you to assume complete control over your desktop and web fonts, while retaining the freedom to explore. For sophistication and ease of use, nothing in this galaxy beats Suitcase Fusion. It simply, and seamlessly, delivers the fonts you need, when you need them.
The new Extensis Font Panels in Adobe Creative Suite apps bring your font collection directly into Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. Your entire font collection, and not just fonts that are currently active, are now available immediately. From WYSIWYG previews, a simple click activates the font for use.
Oh, and there’s much more – WebINK and Google Web Font connections, interface improvements, and more. Full list of new features.
Download a FREE, fully-functional, 30-day trial of Suitcase Fusion 4 today.
Extensis funds ttfautohint development for better font display onscreen
April 5th, 2012 by Jim Kidwell
The way that many fonts display onscreen is unfortunately not the best that it could be.
Some innovative developers have been working to fix this, and we’re happy to help by contributing financially to the technology’s development.
Basically, this technology helps fonts know how to better display onscreen, and does it in a fast, efficient way.
Read more about the technology over on the WebINK blog.
Digital Arts UK Gives 4 Star Rating to Portfolio Server 10!
April 4th, 2012 by Alexandra Barltrop
Last month Digital Arts magazine in the UK reviewed Portfolio Server 10 and awarded it four stars, proclaiming it to be an “essential” resource manager!
It is now on their website for everyone to read!
The guys at Digital Arts found the new features interesting and extremely useful. Here are just a couple of snippets from the article.
“…this is a product that has attained maturity, and more. However, Extensis hasn’t been resting on its laurels, as version 10 demonstrates.”
“If you work with digital media, and don’t already use Portfolio Server… you really should.”
Read the full review of Portfolio Server 10.
