Suitcase Fusion 3 User Guide for Mac OS - Extensis

Backing up the Font Vault
To backup your Font Vault, copy it to a network location or external disk, or burn a copy to a CD or DVD.
NOTE: The Font Vault is a folder. To ensure the integrity of your font files, do not modify its contents.
The default location for the Font Vault on Mac OS X is:
~/Library/Extensis/Suitcase Fusion 3/Suitcase Fusion 3.fontvault
The active Font Vault is listed at the bottom of the Suitcase Fusion 3 Preferences window.
Cleaning Font Caches
Many applications, including your operating system, store information about fonts you use frequently. This
makes accessing those fonts much faster. These font caches can become corrupt, which can lead to slower
performance and to fonts not displaying properly.
It is a good idea to clean your font caches from time to time. If you are seeing problems with the way some fonts
are displayed, or suddenly experience a slowdown when loading a program, it’s probably a good idea to clean
your caches.
Suitcase Fusion 3 will clean the caches maintained by:
• Mac OS X;
• Microsoft Office X, 2004, and 2008;
• Adobe InDesign 2.0, 3.0 (aka CS), CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5;
• Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4, and CS5;
• Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9;
• Adobe Reader 8 and 9;
• QuarkXPress 7 and 8.
To clean your font caches:
1. Quit all other applications.
2. Launch Suitcase Fusion 3.
3. Choose File > Clean Font Caches.
4. Click Clean and Restart.
5. When prompted, enter your system password and click OK.
Suitcase Fusion will delete all the font cache files for the OS and the applications you have installed, then restart
your computer.
NOTE
After you clean your font caches, each application (including the Mac OS) will rebuild the caches it uses. This will
typically happen the first time you start the program after you clean the caches, and for some applications may
take a minute or more.
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