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Font Management Apps: Suitcase Fusion 4

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

We know designers who preoccupy about fonts the same way others consume over old vinyl records. Frequently reorganizing their collections, searching through their back catalogue and adding new acquisitions. OS X’s font management tools are simply insufficient for the task.

Suitcase Fusion is the implement of option. In version 4 there’s a new UI designed to shorten the round-trip between font manager and the countless applications designers’ use, so it’s an important upgrade.

Category                    : Utilities
Developer                  : Extensis
Compatibility             : Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
Age Rating                 : 4+
Price                          : US$131 (Full); US$65.50 (Upgrade)

Top of the new element list is combination with Adobe Creative Suite. Designers can preview organize and activate fonts straight within Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design. Working on a design project in CS? Download the new font, see how it looks and install it lacking leaving the document window.

The feature supports CS tools from version 3 through to 5.5 – with support for CS6 set to come as a free improve just as soon as Extensis have bashed away the bugs. Quark users aren’t left in the cold also, with plug-in sustain for Quark Xpress 7, 8 and 9.

Adobe’s print workflow tool In Copy is catered for too, with the built in creation plug-in updated to make new fonts instantly accessible.

Suitcase Fusion’s best known for its association tools and these have had a muscular boost. Font favorites let you pick star fonts from your collection, so your fallback faces are always easily available. You can also generate and curate your own custom font lists, for collections of typefaces that fit a job or thesis.

And talking about picking fonts for the job, the preview window enables you to see fonts with your choice of text – headline, logo, and strap – anything you need. Take it a step added and you can even try fonts out with the built in colour picker, with a bespoke background.

One of our own favorite features is Google web Font combination. This online collection of free faces is designed for use in web pages, but includes many fonts that are just as suitable to print and digital publishing projects; there are hundreds to choose from. This element increases web font support introduced formerly through webink.

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Google Docs blow up among New Fonts

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The developers behind Google Docs have offered their latest update to their web-based environment for document editing: fonts galore! This update will allow web fonts in Google documents, one whole heck of a lot of them, each of them working to allow you wonderful looks for your documents both online and offline in print form. There are over 450 fonts presented in Google docs at present, with extra features coming up quick!

Google Docs explodes with new fonts

To modernize your Google Docs environment, you’ll have to click your FONT menu and select ADD FONTS. From there you’ll be capable to pick from a number of Google Web Fonts available. You can add the fonts you’d like to use several times to your everyday font menu if you like, all 450 of them!

In addition to fonts, there are numerous features Google has added to Docs to entice you to stick around in the blur for the time being. First there are several new options for including images in your Docs. You can now put in images into your Docs via Google Drive, by searching in the LIFE Photo archive, or by taking a photo with your webcam – expansion!

Google Doc explodes with new fonts and Templates

 The following trappings have also been prepared to Google Docs:

  • Accessibility in Docs got better with sustain for screen readers in presentations and with the count of NVDA to our list of supported screen readers.
  • From File > Page setup… you can now set the evade page size for your new documents.
  • It’s now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that may use them.
  • Apps Script had several improvements, including
  • A new Script Service for programmatically publishing your scripts and scheming when they run.
  • A new task to find the root folder of someone’s Drive.
  • An enlarge in the acceptable attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
  • An enlarge in the size of doc’s files you can generate from 2MB to 50MB.
  • There are currently over 60 new templates in our template gallery.
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Two New Fonts as of FiZZZ BZZZZ

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Paris-based studio FiZZZ BZZZZ clearly has fun when it comes to naming things, like their own perform or, in this case, their two newest fonts Antique De Profundis and Animal Grotesk.

Antique De Profundis

Google translates Antique De Profundis as “Antique of the Depths,” which is perhaps why they showcase the typeface over an image of a graveyard, but I honestly think they needed a nice word with both a Q and an E to show off their curled descenders and bars. This rounded motif is obvious in the leg of the R and the overly plump S as well. It has celebrity. I know I’m attainment here, but doesn’t the F remind you of Sam the Eagle?

Animal Grotesk

FiZZZ BZZZZ describes their second typeface, Animal Grotesk, as cleanly “childish,” but they visibly left out totally adorable. I’m not sure how efficient it is, but who cares? It works for titles and as standalone letter forms, and besides, this was clearly as much fun to design as it is for me to ogle at online while in secret wishing I knew a six-year-old so I could make him a sign for his bedroom door.

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New Edition of CorelDraw X6

Friday, March 30th, 2012

One of the industry’s favorite tools for design and file production has been updated. Here is a list of what is latest in this edition.

Work Faster and More Efficiently:

Since organizing project assets and accessing the suite’s huge content library anywhere that you have an internet connection, to more quickly identifying available formatting options and removing surplus areas in photos, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6 offers several workflow improvements that help you be more efficient and productive.

New! Multiple Trays in Corel CONNECT:

Corel CONNECT X6 now lets you work with several trays along with, which gives you enlarged flexibility for organizing assets for multiple projects. Trays help you gather content from different folders or online sources, and are shared between CorelDraw, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel CONNECT.

New! Search Capability in Corel CONNECT:

The new Corel CONNECT search toolbar lets you directly extract images from a client’s web site. You simply type a web address in the Search box and Corel CONNECT instantly gathers all images defined with an HTML <img> tag from the web site, making it quick and easy to leverage content assets from online sources. You can also type search terms or a folder pathway to have Corel CONNECT search your computer, network, or other online resources for content.

Additional New Features of CorelDraw:

  • New and enhanced! Online content
  • New! Object Properties docker
  • New! Smart Carver
  • New! Shape tools
  • New! Create clip mask
  • New! Pass Through Merge Mode
  • New & Enhanced! Multi-core processor support
  • New! Native 64-bit support
  • Enhanced! Adobe Plug-in support
  • New! SWiSH miniMax3
  • Create layouts with ease
  • New and enhanced! Master Layers
  • New! Page numbering
  • New! Alignment Guides
  • New! Interactive frames
  • New! Placeholder text
  • New! Advanced Open Type support
  • Enhanced! Complex script support
  • New! Proxima Font Expert 2010
  • Design with style and creativity
  • New! Color Styles and Harmonies
  • New! Pre-designed frames are now content-ready

 

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