Suitcase Fusion 3 User Guide for Mac OS - Extensis

Maintenance Procedures
Maintaining Your Font Vault
To ensure that you never lose any of the work that you’ve put into adding and organizing your fonts, it’s
important to backup your Font Vault periodically.
In addition, you may want to use more than one Font Vault to keep fonts licensed by different clients separate, or
to keep metadata “vocabularies” separated. Since the Font Vault also contains Suitcase Fusion’s database,
every time you change the Font Vault you could be using an entirely different set of keywords, fonts added inplace,
etc.
You might also have a Font Vault that only contains old fonts and another for newer fonts. In this instance, you
might revert to your old vault when working on legacy documents.
Creating a new Font Vault
There are many reasons why you may want to create a new Font Vault.
• If you have multiple font collections that you need to keep separate and ensure that they are never used
at the same time.
• As an alternate to Libraries for organizing their projects, you can keep one Vault per project, and easily
swap between font collections. This ensures that all fonts are archived with project-specific fonts as well
as font organization into a single Font Vault
• If multiple users need access to a specific set of fonts, all fonts can be added to a single Font Vault. When
one person is done working on a project and needs to pass it on to another person, they Font Vault can
be passed on along with the other project files. This provides an easy way for small teams to ensure
consistency.
It’s important to note that multiple users cannot access a single Font Vault at the same time. If you need this
functionality, it is best to use a server-based font manager such as Universal Type Server.
To create a new font vault:
1. Choose Suitcase Fusion 3 > Preferences.
2. Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window.
3. Click New.
4. Navigate to the location where you want the new Font Vault, enter a name for it, and click Save.
5. When prompted to cancel or restart Suitcase Fusion 3, click Restart.
The new Font Vault will be created and automatically selected.
Selecting a Different Font Vault
If you have multiple Font Vaults, or want to use a restored backup, you may need to switch between vaults.
To select a different font vault:
1. Choose Suitcase Fusion 3 > Preferences.
2. Click the Type Core icon in the Preferences window.
3. Click Select.
4. Navigate to the location of the other Font Vault and click Open.
5. When prompted to cancel or restart Suitcase Fusion 3, click Restart.
The new Font Vault will be automatically selected.
NOTE: The default location for the Suitcase Fusion 3 Font Vault is in the user’s Library folder, which is hidden on
OS X 10.7 Lion. To access the default font vault from within the Select File dialog, press Command-Shift-G to
display the Go to Folder window, type ~/Library/Extensis/Suitcase Fusion, and click Go.
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