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© 2010 Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc. This document and the software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved. This document or the software described may not be copied, in whole or part, without the written consent of Extensis, except in the normal use of the software, or to make a backup copy of the software. This exception does not allow copies to be made for others. Licensed under U.S. patents issued and pending. Extensis is a registered trademark of Extensis.
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Table of Contents Welcome to Suitcase Fusion ................................................................................................................................... 6 Overview of Suitcase Fusion and Desktop Font Management .................................................................................. 6 System Requirements and Release Notes ............................................................................................................... 7 Installing Suitcase Fusion .............
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Understanding Font Activation ............................................................................................................................... 29 The Suitcase Fusion Core ...................................................................................................................................... 30 Sorting and Finding Fonts .....................................................................................................................................
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Modifying Keywords ............................................................................................................................................... 51 Working with Styles ................................................................................................................................................ 52 Finding Fonts by Style ............................................................................................................................................
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Welcome to Suitcase Fusion Extensis™ Suitcase Fusion™ is a powerful font management utility that gives you total and precise control over all of the fonts on your system, all while making your work with fonts faster and easier than ever before. Suitcase Fusion allows you to locate and activate fonts only when you need them, saving valuable system resources and time.
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Rest assured that you're covered • • • Automatically check your fonts for corruption, keeping problematic fonts out of your workflow. With Font Sense data automatically extracted from every font added, auto-activating the exact font is a breeze. Meet the demands of complex with features such as font libraries and a portable Font Vault. NOTE: The term "suitcase" originated on the Macintosh, where fonts were at one time required to be placed in a "suitcase" or they couldn't be used by the system.
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Suitcase Fusion and Web Fonts You may have noticed that many websites share the same tired look for their text content. This is because web developers restrict themselves to using a limited set of common "web fonts" in order to ensure their pages display properly in most situations. Recent advances in browsers and web standards allow web developers to use fonts that are not necessarily installed on the end user's computer.
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Registration and Serialization It is important to enter a serial number and register your copy of Suitcase Fusion so we can provide you with the best possible service. Registered users are eligible for technical support, information regarding new versions and products, discounts and special offers on new products. Your serial number is located inside the product case or was sent to you via e-mail.
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designer is free to incorporate other typefaces into the design as well. To use these fonts consistently, the designer does the following: • • • • • • • • Locates desired fonts and adds them to the Font Vault by dragging them into the Libraries pane of Suitcase Fusion. Suitcase Fusion automatically creates a new set for these fonts to be used with the job. Previews and prints samples of various other fonts that might be used, and adds them to the set. Activates the font set temporarily.
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Understanding the Suitcase Fusion interface Suitcase Fusion 3 offers all the power you need to manage fonts. The main window is divided into five areas, organized as follows: • • • • • The Toolbar is across the top of the window. The Libraries pane is in the upper left. The Fonts pane is in the lower right. The Attributes pane is in the lower left. (This can be hidden to allow more space for the Libraries pane.) The Preview pane is in the upper right.
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What's New in Suitcase Fusion 3 Suitcase Fusion 3 goes beyond desktop font management and gives you the tools to integrate hosted fonts—from the WebINK font service—into your own websites. The following are the most prominent new features in Suitcase Fusion 3. WebINK The WebINK font rental service is the cost-effective way to implement typographic distinctiveness on your websites.
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Upgrading to Suitcase Fusion 3 Upgrading from a previous version of Suitcase is a simple process. Before you install Suitcase Fusion 3, remove any previously installed auto-activation plug-ins. Any auto-activation plug-ins from other font managers, including previous versions of Suitcase, can conflict with the new plug-ins in Suitcase Fusion 3.
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Typical Setup Suitcase Fusion is designed for publishers—web designers; freelance graphic designers; advertising agencies; publishers producing magazines, newspapers, and books; and service bureaus and printers. Each type of user typically handles fonts differently, with web designers using fonts hosted on a server, freelance graphic designers typically maintaining their own fonts, creative firms preferring to use the same fonts, and service bureaus managing client's fonts.
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If you add fonts from removable media, for example CDs or DVDs, and you don't have enough space on your hard drive to store all these fonts, you can add these fonts to Suitcase Fusion by choosing the Add fonts leaving them in place option in the Preferences dialog box. This allows you to catalog all your fonts without storing them all on your hard drive. When you want to use these fonts, you will have to mount the appropriate volume; Suitcase Fusion will notify you when the need arises.
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Service Bureau or Printer Sample Setup Service bureaus and printers have font-management issues unlike most other users: handling the scores of fonts delivered by clients each day, ensuring that the appropriate fonts are used to output each job, controlling the number of active fonts, and deleting fonts that are no longer necessary. Fortunately, many features in Suitcase Fusion are designed to address service bureau-specific issues.
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Web Design Sample Setup Web design is a new use for Suitcase Fusion. Modern browsers give web designers the ability to use fonts on a web page when the viewer of the page does not have the font installed. Suitcase Fusion WebINK Preview is integrated with the WebINK font rental service from Extensis. This combination gives you the ability to preview any of hundreds of fonts on your existing websites and during design and development, then Extensis will host and serve the fonts to website visitors.
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Setting up Suitcase Fusion Before adding your fonts to Suitcase Fusion, you need to make a few basic decisions about how you would like Suitcase Fusion to manage your fonts. By making a few simple decisions beforehand, you will better understand how Suitcase Fusion can help you stay organized and be more productive. Suitcase Fusion can meet your font management needs by allowing you to use the secure repository, called the Font Vault, or use your current organization by using fonts in the current location.
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Font Vault benefits The Font Vault has many benefits, including: • • • • • Suitcase Fusion does not allow true duplicate fonts into the Vault. This makes managing your fonts much easier and minimizes storage needs. The Vault is secure, so you can't accidentally delete an important font file. Fonts are automatically separated into font faces, so you only activate the font faces you need.
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Overriding system fonts If you attempt to activate a font that has the same PostScript name as an active system font, as long as the font is not a "required" system font, Suitcase Fusion automatically activates the requested font by deactivating the system font. If the font has the same PostScript name as a "required" system font, the font activation is not allowed.
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Adding, Deleting and Collecting Fonts Adding, deleting, and collecting work as follows: • • • • • • • You add fonts to the selected library. You cannot add fonts to the System Fonts library using Suitcase Fusion. You can add fonts individually or as named sets. Suitcase Fusion lets you drag-and-drop fonts or browse to a specific location to add fonts. Suitcase Fusion does not allow any orphan font files and it attempts to repair any font corruption issues.
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Adding Fonts as Sets To retain any current organization you have for fonts—for example, if you have folders of fonts for specific projects— you can add the fonts as sets. Each folder becomes a set with the same name and contents as the folder. To add fonts as a set, do one of the following: • • Choose File > Add Fonts, or press Ctrl+L. Use the Choose fonts to add to library [name] dialog box to locate and select a folder of fonts, then click Add. A set is automatically created from the folder you select.
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Scanning Fonts to Add When you add fonts, Suitcase Fusion performs a scanning process that finds, examines, and organizes all the fonts. The amount of time the scan takes depends on a variety of factors, including: the number of fonts you're adding, the speed of your computer and the media on which the fonts are stored. • • • The progress of the scan displays in the Activity area across the bottom of Suitcase Fusion.
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To locate duplicate fonts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Choose Edit > Find Fonts, or press Ctrl+F. Choose Duplicates from the drop-down menu. This option shows different versions of the same font in the selected library. If necessary, click the Name column to sort fonts alphabetically, and disable View > Group Fonts by Family (Ctrl+E). Try to determine the differences between the fonts. If you need to display more information, choose options from View > Columns.
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When deleting fonts, it's important to understand how fonts are removed. Fonts are typically only removed from the location that you have selected in the Libraries window. This means that if you have a Set selected and delete a font, it is only removed from that set, not from the library. If you have a library selected and delete a font, it is removed from that library. Typically, you will only have one library in Suitcase Fusion, so deleting it from the library removes the font entirely.
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NOTE: When collecting for output, if a font was added to Suitcase Fusion in-place, the entire font file, and all faces included in that file are collected. So, even if you only have the italic face of a font selected, if the font file also contains other faces, they are also collected. For fonts that were added to the Font Vault, only the specific face selected is collected.
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Activating and Deactivating Fonts Suitcase Fusion lets you quickly find the fonts you need, and then activate and deactivate individual fonts, families, and sets. You can work with fonts as follows: • • • • • • • You can activate fonts permanently, so they're active every time you turn on your computer. You can activate fonts temporarily, so they're available until you shut down your computer, yet not active the next time you turn it on.
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Activating Selected Fonts You can activate fonts temporarily (until you log off from your system) or permanently (until you deactivate them). To temporarily activate selected fonts: • • • • Click the Temporary button on the toolbar. Choose File > Activate. Press Ctrl+O. Click in the Activation column, indicated by an open circle, to the left of a font or family in the Fonts pane. (You can click in this column without first selecting fonts.
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Understanding Font Activation Suitcase Fusion can activate an almost unlimited number of individual font files. As always with a font manager, the idea is to activate only the fonts you need, when you need them. Keeping hundreds or thousands of fonts active can impact the performance of your system and your applications. Determining a Font's Status To determine the status of a font, family, or set, check the state of the button in the Activation column to the left of it.
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The Suitcase Fusion Core Suitcase Fusion keeps fonts active through the use of a background application called the Suitcase Fusion Core. Because the Suitcase Fusion Core is always running in the background, you can close Suitcase Fusion and still keep the fonts you want active. To stop or start the Suitcase Fusion Core: 1. 2. 3. Open Control Panel. Double-click the Suitcase Fusion 3 icon. Click Stop or Start.
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Sorting and Finding Fonts Suitcase Fusion provides many options for displaying the fonts within a library. You can decide which fonts to list and how much information you need about them (such as foundry, class, and version). In addition, you can arrange the columns of font information and sort fonts according to any criteria you prefer. Suitcase Fusion also allows you to list fonts individually—Minion, Minion Bold, Minion Italic, etc.—or by typeface family—just Minion.
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These criteria often produce multiple families with the same name, such as a TrueType Times from Apple and PostScript Times from Adobe. To tell the difference between families, look at the Type and Foundry columns. In addition, if the current library has two different versions of a font with the same name, foundry, and kind, they will be placed in the same family. For example, you might have two different versions of Garamond-Book in the Garamond family.
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Specifying Find Criteria If you need to search for fonts by more than name, the Find controls give you additional options. With this feature, you can search for fonts by any combination of attributes such as name, foundry, keywords, style, type, classification and version. When you specify find criteria, you specify the criteria (such as "foundry"), a qualifier for each criteria (such as "matches"), and a value for each criteria (such as "Adobe" for a foundry).
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Using QuickMatch to Find Visually Similar Fonts QuickMatch allows you to find fonts in your local libraries and, if you are connected to the WebINK service, in the WebINK Library. To use QuickMatch: 1. 2. 3. Select a font (either locally or in the WebINK Library) that you want to match. Select any preview type except Web Preview.
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Previewing Fonts While you're designing a document, you may need to identify a font by look rather than by name. To quickly show you what fonts look like, Suitcase Fusion displays live previews of fonts selected in the Fonts pane. You can edit the preview text, choose the type of preview, and adjust the size. For example, if you're creating a new client logo, you might preview the client's name in a variety of selected fonts and then print that preview to see what it looks like on paper.
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Customizing Preview Text You can display any text you want in the Preview pane by choosing an option from the Preview Type drop-down menu and entering new text. NOTE: The Web Preview option allows you to display a live web page or local HTML file for testing WebINK fonts. Please see "Previewing a Website or HTML file" on page 76 for more information on using Web Preview.
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Tearing off a floating preview To tear off a floating preview: 1. 2. Choose one or more fonts in the Fonts pane. For each font preview that you want to create a floating preview, click and drag the Floating Preview button off of the Suitcase Fusion window. As you change preview type, text and size, the floating preview updates to reflect your changes. Activating and deactivating Just like all other font previews, you can activate or deactivate a font directly from the floating preview.
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The Glyph View Window The Glyph View Window allows you to view and compare the glyphs from selected fonts. This tool can be helpful when: • • • • Comparing the details of a specific glyph in multiple fonts. Locating a specific character or symbol within a font. Determining how robust the character palette is in a font. Needing to know the Unicode value of a character, and what keyboard commands are used to create it. To open the Glyph View window: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Working with Sets Within each library, you can group fonts into "sets" for specific clients, jobs, applications, or templates. An ad agency, for example, might create sets for client names and job numbers, while a magazine publisher might create sets for each issue or page spread. Sets contain references to the original font, so placing a font into a set does not copy or in any way increase the size of your font library.
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within the first folder. If you need to add nested folders as individual sets, select those folders and add them independently. For example, say you have a folder on your desktop called Magazine Articles that contains three folders: Editor's Letter, Features, and Departments. The folders contain the documents and fonts for each article. If you drag Magazine Articles into the Libraries pane, Suitcase Fusion will add the fonts from all three folders and create a single set called Magazine Articles.
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Nesting Sets When organizing fonts, you can place sets within other sets, then manipulate the sets individually or all at once. For example, if you're working on a magazine, you may have a set for the entire magazine that contains an individual set for each section. When you're printing a proof of the magazine, you can activate the entire set. However, if you're only editing one section, you can activate just the set for that section. You can nest sets indefinitely.
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Converting a Set to an Application Set An Application Set defines a group of fonts that will be activated temporarily whenever a specific application is started. To convert an existing set into an Application Set: 1. 2. 3. Right-click on the set to convert. Choose Convert to Application Set from the shortcut menu. In the File dialog, select the application you want to associate with the set and click OK. NOTE: You can only convert static sets, not smart sets.
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Working with Classifications A font's classification (class) describes its general look in historic terms—serif, sans serif, script, old style, etc. When fonts are added to Suitcase Fusion, they are classified according to subjective design attributes. Therefore, you may not agree with the classification of each font or you may feel limited by the default classification list.
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Oldstyle: An Oldstyle serif typeface, such as Garamond, is characterized by low to moderate contrast, diagonal stress, and serifs with a rounded join to the letter. Goudy Oldstyle and Garamond are common oldstyle typefaces. Ornamental: An Ornamental typeface, such as GiddyUp, is unusual or ornate, and either doesn't fit cleanly into other categories or is really only suitable for use at display sizes. This includes inline, outline, and engraved typefaces. Examples include Desdemona, Colonna, and Edda.
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Applying Different Classifications to Fonts The classification applies to the font itself, so each font displays the same classification in all sets and all libraries. Since the classification can be used as search and smart set criteria, make sure the changes you make are appropriate for all libraries. NOTE: Changing a font's foundry does not affect the actual font; this information is only saved in Suitcase Fusion. To apply a different classification: 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Deleting Custom Classifications You can delete custom classifications, but the default classifications cannot be deleted. When you delete a custom classification, fonts with that classification applied revert to the default classification. Be sure any deletions are appropriate for all libraries. To delete custom classifications: 1. 2. 3. 4. If necessary, click Attributes to display the Attributes pane in Suitcase Fusion. Choose Classifications from the drop-down menu.
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Working with Foundries In Suitcase Fusion, the foundry is the name of the company that licensed the font to your company. The foundry is not necessarily the original designer of the font. For example, if you license fonts from Adobe, the foundry is listed as Adobe—even though many fonts in the Adobe type library were created by other design houses. When you add fonts, Suitcase Fusion attempts to identify the foundry. The foundry cannot always be determined and you may not always agree with it.
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Applying Different Foundries to Fonts The foundry applies to the font itself, so the font displays the same foundry in all sets and all libraries. Since the foundry can be used as search and smart set criteria, make sure the changes you make are appropriate for all libraries. NOTE: Applying a different foundry to a font will change the font's family as well (View > Group Fonts by Family). In order for fonts to be listed in the same family, they need to have the same foundry.
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Deleting Custom Foundries You can delete custom foundries, but the default foundries cannot be deleted. When you delete a custom foundry, fonts with that foundry applied revert to the default foundry. Be sure any deletions are appropriate for all libraries. To delete custom foundries: 1. 2. 3. 4. If necessary, click Attributes to display the Attributes pane in Suitcase Fusion. Choose Foundries from the drop-down menu. Click a foundry's name to select it. Choose Edit > Delete, or press Delete.
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Working with Keywords Along with all of the information recorded with fonts when they are added to Suitcase Fusion—such as type, foundry, class, and version—you can tag fonts with additional information related to the project, client, or other criteria. These tags are called keywords, and they are helpful for locating specific fonts. The Attributes pane in Suitcase Fusion contains the Keywords controls.
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Modifying Keywords When you edit keywords, changes affect fonts with that keyword in all libraries. Creating Keywords To start using keywords efficiently, it helps to first create a list of keywords. You can then add more keywords as necessary. To create a keyword: 1. 2. 3. 4. If necessary, click Attributes to display the Attributes pane in Suitcase Fusion. Choose Keywords from the drop-down menu. Click the Add Attributes button. A new Untitled Keyword is inserted alphabetically in the list.
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Working with Styles • • • • • • • You can use the Find controls to list only fonts from specific styles. You can create smart sets to display an up-to-date list of all the fonts in specific styles. Many typefaces contain a variety of styles—Bold, Black, Heavy, Italic, Oblique, Bold Italic, etc. When you add fonts, Suitcase Fusion attempts to identify each font's style (generally, by the font's name). You can then use the style as search criteria.
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Modifying Styles You can create new styles, edit custom styles, and delete custom styles, but the default styles cannot be modified. Changes to styles are saved and affect all libraries. Creating Custom Styles If you need additional styles to distinguish all your fonts, you can create an unlimited number of new styles. To create a custom style: 1. 2. 3. 4. If necessary, click Attributes to display the Attributes pane in Suitcase Fusion. Choose Styles from the drop-down menu.
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Working with Auto-Activation Plug-ins To automatically activate precisely the correct fonts used in documents, Suitcase Fusion includes plug-in software modules that use the Extensis Font Sense technology. The plug-ins save Font Sense metadata—information that uniquely identifies fonts—with documents, and then use that metadata to automatically activate the correct fonts when you open a document.
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Saving Font Sense Metadata with Documents Font Sense is designed to ensure that the precise fonts used in a document are auto-activated each time the document is opened, revised, and printed. If you use Font Sense consistently—and make the appropriate fonts available to other users—you should never encounter missing fonts, font conflicts, or confusion regarding multiple versions of the same font. When you get started using the plug-ins, however, many documents will not have Font Sense information in them.
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background. Once you choose a library, you can begin opening documents with confidence that all the right fonts will be auto-activated. Choosing a Library When you launch an application, you are prompted to choose a library. The libraries function as follows: • • • When you open documents, the plug-ins auto-activate fonts within the selected library. You can change libraries at any time, even while a document is open and fonts are active.
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Picking the "Best" Fonts If you open documents that contain Font Sense metadata—and the appropriate library is selected—you should rarely encounter missing fonts. In some cases, however, you may be missing the precise font. If other fonts are available with the same name, the plug-ins can auto-activate the "best" font for you to use (provided that Pick best match when original is missing is enabled in Auto-Activation Preferences, as it is by default).
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Enable Font Sense support By default, the plug-ins save detailed Font Sense data within documents, and then use that information to autoactivate fonts in documents as you open them. Font Sense technology generates the metadata, which includes the font's name and other information such as its type, foundry, version, and other important font information. In general, use Font Sense for superior automatic font activation. To disable it, uncheck the Enable Font Sense support option.
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Maintaining Your Font Vault To ensure that you never lose any of the work that you've put into adding and organizing your fonts, it's important to backup your Font Vault periodically. In addition, you may want to use more than one Font Vault to keep fonts licensed by different clients separate, or to keep metadata "vocabularies" separated.
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Backing up the Font Vault To backup your Font Vault, copy it to a network location or external disk, or burn a copy to a CD or DVD. NOTE: The Font Vault is a folder. To ensure the integrity of your font files, do not modify its contents. Under Windows XP, the default Font Vault is located here (where [username] refers to the current user's Windows user name): C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Extensis\Suitcase Fusion 3\Suitcase Fusion 3.
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WebINK: Using Fonts on the Web Web typography has been a sore point for designers for years. Without doing a lot of work, there was no way to use a rich set of typefaces to proclaim your presence on the Internet. And when it came time to change the look of the website, most of that work had to be redone. Finally, most popular browsers support a feature proposed for the CSS3 standard known as @font-face. This allows you to assign a font that is hosted on a web server to a font-family in your CSS.
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Price Tier Fonts are grouped by their prices, so you can keep costs down for specific websites by setting the appropriate Price Tier for each Type Drawer. Font, font face, font family In desktop typography, a font or font family is a collection of faces designed and intended to be used together. The Garamond font family includes roman and italic styles and bold, semi-bold, and regular weights. A face of this font family is a single style and weight combination, such as Garamond Bold-Italic.
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Opening and Using the WebINK Library Once connected to the WebINK service, you can browse available fonts by opening the WebINK Library. To open the library, click on the icon. The WebINK Library lists thousands of fonts available for use in your Type Drawers. You can use many of the same tools for locating and previewing fonts in the WebINK Library as are available to use in your desktop font management practices. To sort the list of library fonts, click the heading of any column.
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Style In CSS, the "style" applies to much more than fonts. CSS is used to specify element color, background, size, position, and many other properties. Sheets By defining a style sheets as an independent list, you can better understand how the style—the look of your web page—is separated from the content of your page, and how this separation can benefit you when you want to change how your page looks.
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Cascading Style rules can be defined in multiple places: • • • • Inline style sheets are defined in the HTML element tag itself, and apply only to that tag and its children. Internal style sheets are defined in the
element of an HTML page, and apply to everything on that page. External style sheets are defined in a separate document and can be attached to an HTML page by being linked to the page in the element.
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References For more information about inheritance and how it works with cascading, see Inheritance and Cascading Styles in CSS (http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/html-css/css-inheritance-cascade/) and Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html). NOTE:w3.org is the website of the World Wide Web Consortium, responsible for developing the standards used on the Web.
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Typically a style rule that defines a font for use on a web page uses what is called a "fallback stack." The purpose of the fallback stack is to allow the designer to specify the font he or she wants to use, and if that font isn't present, give the browser other options to "fall back" on.
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When you need to apply this to a few paragraphs, on a few pages, it isn't too bad. What hurts is when you want to change the font from Comic Sans to something else. Then you have to go to each page and re-edit all the inline styles, then preview every page to make sure you didn't miss any. This is why the CSS class was invented.
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Tips & Techniques There are many websites, book chapters, and blogs devoted to identifying "best practices" for using CSS. These are somewhat subjective and of course can change over time as browsers evolve and new technologies like WebINK become available. Instead of "best practices" here are some ideas, tips, and techniques that you can investigate for using in your own websites. Some will be fairly obvious and long-lasting, while others may only be valid for certain people or situations.
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Rules with nuance These rules come from experience: once explained they are reasonable enough but aren't necessarily obvious at first. • • • Name classes for their function, not their property values. If you name a class Big_Red_Arial, then when you change it to use Times New Roman in green, you won't know what's going on in your CSS, and neither will anyone else who reads it.
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WebINK & @font-face • • Use WebINK! The WebINK font rental service gives you access to thousands of high-quality, affordable fonts. WebINK handles the delivery of fonts to the requesting browser, so you don't have to host the fonts, don't have to license the fonts, and don't have to create special CSS to cover individual browsers. For details on integrating the CSS generated by WebINK into your own, see Integrating the WebINK CSS into your Website.
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To Learn More Here are some places to go for more information on Cascading Style Sheets. Learning • • • W3School CSS Tutorial:http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp A good, up-to-date, and free way to learn CSS. Webucator CSS Tutorial:http://www.learn-css-tutorial.com/ Webucator offers high quality free tutorials on many Web technologies. Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, Second Edition by Ian Lloyd, ISBN 978-09804552-7-4.
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Managing Type Drawers You use Type Drawers in the WebINK service to assign fonts to one or more websites. You can create as many Type Drawers as you need, and add as many fonts to each Type Drawer as its sites need to access. Each Type Drawer consists of the following: • • • • • Name - This is used by you to identify the Type Drawer's purpose. You might name it for the client or for the websites it serves.
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Subsetting Fonts Often you will find that you will never use certain characters on your website. These are usually non-English or nonEuropean characters, and by removing unused characters from a font, you can reduce the font's download size (and correspondingly bandwidth usage, and ultimately, cost). You specify the font subset to use in the Type Drawer. All fonts added to the Type Drawer will have only the specified subset served to all sites in the drawer. To specify a Type Drawer's font subset: 1. 2. 3.
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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.
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Using WebINK on Your Websites WebINK makes it straightforward to upgrade your existing sites to use custom fonts and to plan your new sites around this exciting capability.
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Web Preview controls Back and Forward Page through visited websites, removing any formatting changes. Address Bar Enter any web address, select any previously visited address from the drop down menu, or select Browse from the menu to open any local HTML file. Reload page Removes any formatting and reloads the current page. Stop Stops loading the current page. Selection information Displays the HTML tag and class of the current selection.
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Printing the Web Preview You may want a physical example of how a website looks with specific fonts applied. You may even want to show a client multiple versions of his website based on a variety of font choices. To this end, you can print the Web Preview pane, showing a website as it would look with WebINK fonts, before you commit to using those fonts. To print the Web Preview: 1. 2. 3. 4. Load the page to display in the Web Preview pane. Select one or more elements of the preview to customize.
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A Simple CSS Example This shows exported WebINK CSS followed by a typical style assignment. @font-face { font-family: BigDaddy; src: url('http://fnt.webink.
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Modified CSS tags Here are some CSS tags for the above @font-face elements, modified to utilize multiple font-family definitions. Note the definitions for combined tags; if you use the combination for bold italic text, you will need to define that combination, and likewise if you use the reverse notation .
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Compatible Browsers WebINK uses the @font-face capability of a browser to deliver fonts. Different browsers offer different levels of support for this capability. WebINK handles the required font formats for most browsers behind the scenes. Some browser implementations don't support @font-face, and some have limited support; the sections below offer suggestions for supporting these browsers.
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NOTE: There have been reports that Mobile Safari does not render a page correctly (and even crashes) if the page includes multiple fonts from the same family (such as a normal style font and an italics style of the same font). This is one of the reasons we still label this support "experimental." Browsers Lacking @font-face Support In order to deliver web content to users with older browsers or browsers lacking @font-face support, your CSS should include fallback fonts.
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Font Subsets WebINK allows you to specify a subset of characters to be served for the fonts in your Type Drawer. See Adding Fonts to a Type Drawer for information on how to specify the subset used. The subsets are English, Western Europe, and Full Font. Full Font consists of all the characters available in each font in your Type Drawer.
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Western Europe The Western Europe set is a superset of the Adobe Latin 2 character set, which supports these languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan*, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish. *Adobe Latin 2 does not include the Catalan Ldot and ldot characters (codes 013F and 0140). However, if a WebINK font includes these characters, they will be available in the Full Font "subset.
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WebINK Workflows Your workflow using the WebINK service and tools may vary depending on the goal of the job at hand. If you are working with an existing website to rebrand it using better fonts, then your primary task will be to replace existing fonts on the original website. If you are creating a new website, you can craft the site's look around the availability of a larger palette of typefaces.
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If your site uses inline styles or an internal style sheet, we strongly advise that you consider undertaking the effort to move it to using a single external style sheet. It will make your site much more consistent and much easier to modify in this regard in the future. Assuming you are using a single external style sheet for your website's CSS, here are the steps to take to give the site a WebINK makeover: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Create a Type Drawer in Suitcase Fusion. Add your site to the Type Drawer.
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Using WebINK from a Browser You can access the basic functionality of WebINK from a web browser. This can be convenient if, for example, you are away from your desktop computer but need to make a change to a Type Drawer, or if you want someone else to have access to your account.
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To view your account details, log in to the WebINK service at http://www.webink.com and follow the Edit Account link. You can also go to http://www.extensis.com and click the My Account link on that page. Type Drawer Details When you click a Type Drawer's name, you can review and edit the details for that drawer. Fonts Click the Fonts tab to show and modify the Type Drawer's fonts. The font list shows the font name, a small type sample, the price tier, and the foundry for each font in the list.
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Subsetting Your website may never use many of the characters that are available in a font. If you only need to display English or a Western European language, then you can elect to use only that portion of the font, which will reduce the font's download size (which will ultimately cost you less). Choose a subset from the menu. You can choose English, Western Europe, or All. For a list of the characters included in the English and Western Europe subsets, see "Font Subsets" on page 83.
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Transferring a Type Drawer You can transfer a Type Drawer to another WebINK user. This is useful if, for example, you have used the service to design a website and future payment for the WebINK service for that site will be handled by another party. To transfer a Type Drawer: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Log in to your WebINK account. Click the My Type Drawers link. Locate the Type Drawer you want to transfer and click the Transfer button in the gray summary bar for the drawer.
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About Extensis Contact Information Extensis Extensis Europe 1800 SW First Avenue Suite 500 Portland, OR 97201 Toll Free: (800) 796-9798 Phone: (503) 274-2020 Fax: (503) 274-0530 Web: http://www.extensis.com Suites 17 &18, Newton House Northampton Science Park Kings Park Road, Moulton Park Northampton NN3 6LG United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0)1604 654 270 Fax: +44 (0)1604 654 268 Email: info@extensis.co.uk Celartem, Inc. Customer Service Phone: +81 3 5574 7236 Email: sales_ap@celartem.com Web: http://www.
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Technical Support Technical Support is available directly through the Extensis website or by telephone. When contacting technical support, include the following information: • • • • Your serial number(s) Your computer configuration, including operating system, memory, hard drive configuration, etc. Your question or a description of the difficulty you're experiencing - what specifically occurs and when Your phone number if you want to have our representatives call you.
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Index C E check document fonts, 57 EPS files, 56, 58 check for updates, 7 exit Suitcase Fusion, 30 automatically, 55, 57 Clarendon, 43 exporting fonts, 21, 25, 26 permanently, 29 classifications, 43, 45 A ABC123 preview, 36 activating fonts, 27, 28, 29, 58 temporarily, 29 activation status, 29 adding creating sets while adding fonts, 39 fonts, 21, 23 custom, 45 F deleting custom, 46 faces, 29 finding by, 44 families, 31, 58 modifying, 45 regrouping, 32 reverting to the default, 45 rest
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deleting custom, 49 modifying, 48 reverting to default, 48 G Geometric sans, 43 Glyph View, 38 Grotesque sans, 43 grouping fonts by family, 29, 31, 58 quick setup list, 18 N nesting sets, 41 Humanist sans, 43 I importing data, 13 installation, 7 interface, 11 Oldstyle, 44 Ornamental, 44 overriding system fonts, 19 plug-ins, 54, 55, 56, 57 choosing a library, 56 required system fonts, 19 resetting attributes, 45, 48, 52 installing, 55 pick best match, 57, 58 use Font Sense, 58 preview, 35, 37 deleti
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snapshot, 37 fonts, 74 service bureau, 16 sorting, 31, 44 suitcase as a term, 7 Web Design, 17 by foundry, 47 Suitcase Fusion Core, 30 startup application, 30 Suitcase Fusion workflow, 9 U style Symbol/Pi, 44 upgrading, 13 system fonts, 19 user interface, 11 applying, 52 T W creating custom, 53 temporary fonts, 22 deleting custom, 53 waterfall preview, 36 Transitional, 44 editing custom, 53 Web Preview, 76 typical setup, 14 workflow, 9 finding by, 52 styles, 52 modifying, 53 ad
