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antonioconte

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I Use Extensis Suitcase 11.0.2 and I use Indesign and Quark sometimes. I've noticed that it's SOOOOOO slow. ANyone else having this porblem? What do you other guys and gals use? I definately have to have my fonts in sets so that's why I use it, plus I need automatic font activation in indesign and Quark.
 
I also use Suitcase in 10.3.7 (now 10.3.8 as of this morning) and have noticed that it is sometimes very slow in activating fonts, more so the longer it runs and the more fonts I have active. I do expect it to slow down the more fonts I have open, but the hit I am taking is ridiculous. I also run it on a slower G4 in Jaguar, and it performs so much better, no delay what so ever no matter how many fonts I have open?
 
Same deal here, we have Suitcase on about 10 Dual G5's and have nothing but constant hassles!

Try activating fonts and end up waiting half a day for the computer to boot!
 
Interesting. We run Suitcase on a few Macs here (couple of dual G4s and one Dual G5) and it runs decent. A bit of a delay when activating fonts, but not too bad. Guess it's all relative. Could definitely be zippier though.

What really sucks though is that I've waited for quite a while for Extensis to fix the autoactivation to work with CS2. They finally got that going recently and now it's broke again (either because of the latest Tiger update or the CS2 update, I'm not sure which yet).

I'm convinced Extensis is primed to release an updated font manager for a couple of reasons. 1, they bought Font Reserve quite a while ago (well over a year ago I believe). Presumably they bought that to acquire technology, it's utterly stupid for the same company to sell essentially the same product, which is what they've been doing for a while now. 2, Extensis recently announced deals on Suitcase. My guess is they're urging a selloff (my like Apple does) prior to an update.

It's a long time coming. Overall, I still prefer Suitcase in spite of its flaws. I've tried them all (and I mean all of them) and I still prefer Suitcase's multi-font preview and general interface. It also handles boatloads of fonts better (even if actually activating them may be a bit sluggish).
 
You won't get an argument out of me on that score. I'm a long-time user of Suitcase – started in OS 7 days – but was diverted into ATM Deluxe for several years. I was glad to have to revert to Suitcase when Adobe didn't do an OS X verison of ATM.

I have never had any major problems with Suitcase. Most of the problems I have helped people to solve have been caused by missing parts of Type 1 fonts. As long as you keep your font collection in good nick, Suitcase is fairly faultless.
 
Suitcase here too!
I've seen some erratic behaviours, but works OK generally.
What I try to do is to activate only the fonts that I'm working with at the moment. That does speed up the thing.
 
Extensis has confirmed they will release the latest greatest font manager this month.

Apparently Extensis is not promoting on their website yet, but I got a direct email from them on it a couple of weeks ago.
 
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