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28 Suitcase 9.2 User Guide
Suitcase 9.2 User Guide 29
How Suitcase Works
Suitcase activates fonts only when you tell it to, and it only works
with fonts that reside outside of the Windows Fonts folder. Fonts
in the Windows Fonts folder (C:\Windows\Fonts) are outside of
Suitcaseʼs control. This means that if you want to control fonts
using Suitcase, you will need to remove them from the Windows
Fonts folder and place them into folders somewhere else on your
hard drive.
Note: Several fonts are required by the computerʼs operating
system and should never be removed. See page 31 for a listing of
these special fonts.
To give control of font activation to Suitcase, fonts must be
“added” to Suitcaseʼs fonts list. You can either add fonts “loose”
to Suitcase, or place them into groups called “Sets” (see page 29).
After fonts have been added, either loose or in a Set, you use a
few simple commands to tell Suitcase when and how to activate
those fonts (make them available to the system). Active fonts will
be displayed in the Font list in your applications.
When you add fonts to Suitcase you are really only adding a
shortcut of the actual font on your hard drive. Thus when you
remove a font from Suitcase, the actual font on your hard drive
is left unchanged. Suitcase will look for the actual font when you
activate it. This allows you to add fonts to Suitcase from remote
disks and/or network volumes, as long as the drive or volume is
available when you want to activate those fonts.
Loose fonts and fonts in Sets can include any combination of
individual fonts and/or folders of fonts. You can include fonts in
more than one set, and include sets as shortcuts within other sets.
Once you instruct Suitcase to activate a font, the font becomes
active immediately and stays activated until either the system is
shut down or until you instruct Suitcase to deactivate it.
Note: If you move or rename fonts after you add them to Suitcase,
you may need to re-link them to Suitcase. Otherwise Suitcase will
not know where to find the fonts to activate them. See page 59.
Tip
Fonts that you want to manage
using Suitcase must not be stored
in the Windows Fonts folder (C:
\Windows\Fonts). For important
information on moving fonts out of
this folder, see page 30.
Tip
If you want Suitcase to remember
fonts so that you can open or
close them again at any time, add
them using the “Add Fonts” com-
mand on the Suitcase File menu,
the “Add” button on the Suitcase
Toolbar, or drag and drop them
into the Suitcase Fonts pane or
Sets pane from the Explorer.
If you want Suitcase to forget
fonts, so that they do not appear
in the Suitcase Font Database
after restart, add them using the
“Add Temporarily” command on
the Suitcase File menu, or drag
and drop them onto the Suitcase
application icon. Fonts added tem-
porarily are displayed in red type
on Suitcase Font lists.