Mostly harmless...
Written: Oct 22 '02
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Pros: Helps manage large font collections under OS X
Cons: Little use unless Classic apps are important
The Bottom Line: Professionals creating for prepress may need it, others can let it go.
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| d_cortesi's Full Review: Extensis Suitcase 10 Upgrade Version for Mac (ZXE-... |
If you have a huge collection of fonts (and we're talking 100 families and up) AND you need to control the available fonts -- enabling and disabling specific sets of fonts for specific jobs or documents -- Suitcase v10 may be of some help to you. It has the ability to make designated groups of fonts vanish or appear to specific applications under OS X.
Also, if your need to work with the same documents alternately in Classic and native OS X applications (for example, Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7), Suitcase allows you to install a font once, and have it show up in both Classic and Native environments.
Lacking these exact needs (and they aren't common), Suitcase is of little use. Two of its important usability features -- grouping fonts in named sets just to organize them, and quickly displaying a sample of a font -- are already built in to OS 10.2 native (Cocoa) apps (open textEdit, hit cmd-T, and explore the font dialogue).
Another of its best features -- showing the Fonts menu in the font faces, ala Adobe Type Reunion -- is available ONLY in Classic mode. This is frustrating because this is a functional gap in OS X that Suitcase ought to fill.
Finally and most ironically, Suitcase can't operate on "suitcases." It reads OS 9 font suitcases and lets you enable and disable them, but it can't extract fonts from a suitcase or add fonts to one. The only way I can find to do that is to reboot in OS 9.
Recommended:
No
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