Suitcase Fusion 3 User Guide for Mac OS - Extensis

In general, use permanent activation for fonts that you use daily, and use temporary activation for the fonts that
you use for quick jobs. If you’re going to work on a project for several days, you might activate its fonts
permanently, then deactivate them when you’re finished with the project.
Activating Font Faces Within Families
Suitcase Fusion activates a single font face at a time—not an entire typeface family or suitcase. For example,
activating CaflischScriptPro-Light does not activate the entire Caflisch Script Pro family.
If you want to ensure that all variations of a typeface are available, select the entire family and activate it (View >
Group Fonts by Family or press Command-E).
Updating Font Menus
In applications that dynamically update their font menus, active fonts are immediately added to the font list
(these include most of the major graphics applications, such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and
Illustrator).
If an application is not capable of dynamically updating its font menus, re-launch the application to access newly
activated fonts.
The Suitcase Fusion Core
Suitcase Fusion keeps fonts active through the use of a background application called the Suitcase Fusion Core.
Because the Suitcase Fusion Core is always running in the background, you can close Suitcase Fusion and still
keep the fonts you want active.
The Suitcase Fusion Core starts the first time you start Suitcase Fusion 3, then will automatically start every time
you log in to your computer, unless you manually stop the core. To start the core after stopping it, you just need
to start Suitcase Fusion 3.
To stop the Suitcase Fusion 3 Core:
1. Choose Suitcase Fusion 3 > Preferences.
2. Click the FMCore icon in the Preferences window.
3. Click the Stop FMCore button in the Preferences window. In the warning dialog, click Stop FMCore .
Suitcase Fusion 3 will exit.
NOTE
You do not need to keep Suitcase Fusion open to keep fonts active or to activate fonts with the auto-activation
plug-ins. Choose Suitcase Fusion 3 > Quit Suitcase Fusion 3 (Command-Q) to close Suitcase Fusion 3, but
keep the core running in the background.
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