You know who you are — you horde your fonts, saving each one in the System Folder for imminent future use, knowing someday that Bajoran font is going to come in handy for your next Trekker party invite. However, gang-loading fonts in your operating system seriously impacts your Mac’s performance. That’s where Extensis’s font-management program. Suitcase 10, comes into play.
With much-needed new features, such as font autoactivation and corrupt-font detection, Suitcase 10 can be a lifesaver for font fanatics.
Suitcase works by loading seldom-used fonts into the Mac OS only when you need them — and unloading them when you don’t — so they don’t bog down your Mac the rest of the time. Version 10 really rocks because, unlike prior versions, it can load specific fonts automatically, and only when you open the document that calls for them — no more launching Suitcase just to load a font. Unfortunately, this wonderful feature is limited to a small number of supported apps...
One thing that hasn’t changed is Suitcase's efficient interface: a single, three-paned window provides customizable views of fonts and font sets, as well as a multitude of font-preview display options. All the interface lacks are savable, custom preview sets.
If you have hundreds of fonts, you can save a lot of time by printing them all into a quick reference book. FontBook, a bundled companion program new to Suitcase 10, displays fonts in 24 different professional formats, which facilitates the process greatly. This application may look familiar to many Mac folks — it’s a shareware program from Lemke Software, the maker of GraphicConverter.
Also new is a Control Strip module and Contextual Menu support, both capable of launching the Suitcase application or loading fonts by activating predefined font sets. These are especially handy when you’re dealing with applications that don’t support Suitcase lo’s on-demand font loading.
Satisfying our major beef with Suitcase 9..., Suitcase 10 can identify corrupted font files after a system crash, helping you isolate and replace bad fonts.
At press time, Extensis was developing a Mac OS X version. Aside from the fact that autoactivation doesn’t work with all programs, the only other gripe we have with Suitcase is the Windows-like interface of the online help. Still, if you’re juggling fonts, Suitcase 10 will help organize them for utmost efficiency, freeing you and your Mac to concentrate on real work.
Shuchat-Marx, Mark D. (November 2001). Suitcase 10. MacAddict. (pg. 48).
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