Suitcase Fusion 3 User Guide for Mac OS - Extensis

Enabling a Type Drawer
When you enable a Type Drawer:
• The WebINK fonts you’ve added to it will be served to your websites.
• Billing for the Type Drawer starts.
To enable a Type Drawer:
1. Select the Type Drawer.
2. Click the Type Drawer Information button at the bottom left of the Suitcase Fusion window to show the
Type Drawer information.
3. Check the box labeled Enabled.
To disable a Type Drawer, uncheck the Enabled box for that drawer.
About Disabled Type Drawers
When you create a Type Drawer it is in a disabled state, so that you can add fonts and websites at your leisure
without incurring a charge. When you first enable a Type Drawer, you will be charged for usage through the end
of the current calendar month, then charged at the beginning of each subsequent month.
When you disable a Type Drawer, WebINK will immediately stop serving fonts to the sites associated with that
drawer, even though you have already paid for the service through the end of the month. Any published CSS
that refers to the disabled Type Drawer will use fallback fonts instead of the WebINK fonts.
Keep this in mind when you create Type Drawers. To avoid unnecessary billing, a good plan is to leave the Type
Drawer in the disabled state, add fonts and websites to it, generate the CSS, and add the CSS to the
appropriate style sheets. When you have done all this, enable the Type Drawer and enjoy your customized
websites!
Managing websites
A website can be:
• A complete hostname, such as www.example.com.
• The word localhost, for testing on a web server on your local workstation.
• An IP address, such as 12.34.56.78 (especially useful for websites on your local network).
• A hostname with wildcards replacing the subdomain, the top-level domain, or both.
A website string with wildcards is a powerful way to easily include all possible sites for a client. For example, by
using *.example.com, your Type Drawer will serve fonts to www.example.com, blog.example.com,
jobs.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com.
You can also include multiple top-level domains by using the wildcard in the final position of the website name.
For example, using example.co.* allows a single Type Drawer to serve fonts to example.co.uk, example.co.jp,
example.co.de, and all other “dot-co” websites.
Website strings cannot include wildcards to replace part of a string, like www.ex*le.com, and cannot be used to
cover all domains, like www.*.com. The wildcard can only be used to specify the subdomain, the top-level
domain, or both.
Cautions
• Be careful deploying CSS to a live website when localhost is assigned to the same Type Drawer.
localhost is useful for local testing, but if published CSS includes a Type Drawer with localhost, it could
lead to unexpected overages in your bandwidth.
• Don’t include wildcards for hosts that might be outside your control (such as *.blogger.com or
*.intuitwebsites.com). Anyone with a subdomain on these hosts could conceivably copy your CSS and
use your WebINK fonts, causing you to be billed for the higher bandwidth usage.
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