![]() Suitcase users will appreciate that the familiar one-window browser interface hasn’t changed much since the previous version, Suitcase X1. Suitcase Fusion keeps some of the best features of its namesake predecessor and still finds room for some, though not all, of the best features of Font Reserve. Extensis expects to deliver the Universal version of Suitcase Fusion in the first half of this year. The $99 Suitcase Fusion ($50 upgrade from Suitcase X1 or Font Reserve 3) is Mac-only software, but it is not yet a Universal application and therefore doesn’t run natively on the new Intel-based Macintosh models. The big question about the merger was, “Will it work?” Now that I’ve tested Suitcase Fusion, I can answer the question with a relieved, “Yes.” Veteran Font Reserve users (I’ll call them Font Reservists) may miss aspects of their old font manager, but Suitcase Fusion is as fast if not faster than earlier versions, and it’s added features that creative professionals - even Font Reservists - will appreciate. It’s taken Extensis almost three years to merge the two into one, called Suitcase Fusion. Once competitors with very different approaches to font management, they became uneasy roommates when Extensis acquired Font Reserve in 2003. ![]() You might call Extensis Suitcase and DiamondSoft Font Reserve the Odd Fellows of the software world.
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