What's new in Suitcase for Windows (v11)?

Thank you for choosing Suitcase for Windows, the most popular professional font manager for the Microsoft Windows platform.

This release includes a number of improvements:

The addition of the Font Vault, a secure repository within which to house your fonts.
New auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and QuarkXPress 7 that utilize Font Sense technology for accurate font activation.
Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility.

Extensis Suitcase for Windows Release Notes

Installation notes

System Requirements
Installing Suitcase for Windows

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, or Vista
Pentium 3 or better
1024x768 display
256MB RAM
30MB of free hard disk space + font storage
Network connection required for connection to a Suitcase Server

Installing Suitcase for Windows

To install Suitcase for Windows, double click the installer on the Suitcase for Windows CD, or if you downloaded Suitcase for Windows from the Extensis web site, double-click the downloaded installer.

Note: Apple's Bonjour technology is automatically installed with Suitcase for Windows, and is used to validate the product.

What's New

The following describes some of the highlights of this version of Suitcase for Windows.

Font Sense professional font identification

The exclusive Font Sense technology provides absolute font fidelity when automatically activating fonts by delving deeper into the font. Using information from the database about each font’s type, version, foundry, kerning information, and more, Font Sense records this information with documents and uses it for precision automatic activation. As documents are opened, fonts are activated for the document and graphics in supported file formats (Font Sense information can be stored with Illustrator EPS files and PDF files generated from Illustrator and InDesign). Using the right fonts prevents text reflow that can result in costly printing mistakes, not to mention cause hours of confusion and frustration. Suitcase for Windows provides this professional font identification through Font Sense plug-ins for high-end publishing applications (InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, and QuarkXPress 7).

Font Vault

Suitcase for Windows lets users decide how to manage their fonts. If users want to keep them in place, we continue to support this option. For those looking for the most powerful font management available, the Font Vault is a managed repository that integrates with the Suitcase for Windows database and makes font management predictable and reliable—especially when users have multiple versions of fonts with the same PostScript name. The Font Vault utilizes the Font Sense technology to allow true font identification and professional duplicate font management.

Vista compatibility

Suitcase for Windows has been fully upgraded and tested with the newest Microsoft Windows operating system, Vista. For users who work in a Microsoft Windows environment, Suitcase for Windows provides consistent and reliable font management.

Known issues

The following issues are known, but have not yet been addressed in this version of Suitcase for Windows. The list is intended to cite the most serious problems known. It is not an exhaustive list of all known problems.

ID	Description

27785	In Adobe Illustrator, when a file is saved as an Illustrator CS2 Template (AIT) file, Font Sense information about the currently active fonts is currently not recorded in the AIT file.
27795	In some cases, InDesign CS2 may consider a TrueType font to be missing even if the same-same named PostScript type 1 font is activated (and visa versa).
28043	When previewing certain fonts in the Preview pane, sometimes the last few lines of text are not properly displayed.
28762	In QuarkXPress, if a document contains duplicate fonts in normal text areas as well as the same fonts in external composition zones, two missing font dialogs are displayed.
26504	Suitcase may report a font as missing in QuarkXPress, even if an exact match is present. This occurs if there are duplicate fonts stored in the Suitcase database and the document being opened contains no Font Sense data, and the "Pick Best Match when Original is Missing" option is disabled in the Suitcase Quark XTension.
28643	In the Preview pane, some fonts may not be displayed properly and can have overlapping characters.