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Has anyone gotten Suitcase Fusion to work with Quark 8? I don't see a plug-in for 8 yet (maybe just too soon), just for versions 6 and 7. A colleague of mine hasn't gotten it working yet and I'm not looking all that forward to this little bump in the road after I get my 8 installed. thanks!

Glanced at the Fusion Forum - someone asked about this on the 11th August - but there's no reply yet. 

I have been using qxp8 now for about 2 weeks now.. Suitecase Fusion works very well without a plug-in, I just activate the fonts for the customers that I am working on and then open the job in qxp8 and the fonts load with no problems..

Hi RJ_PRE_PRESS, I suppose the op is looking for the auto activation plugin for XPress 8. Since you are in pre-press I assume (and understand) you don't want to use auto-activation...

Checked again. They are deciding which requested items to prioritise ...

Crackers. I would have thought they'd have got this out first!

According to Extensis the release of the xtension will be out in the third quarter of September. Bah!!

 That's OK, we Font Agent Pro users are waiting for our plug-in, too...

I've been doing that since installing QXP8, but it gets hairy with OS X's HelveticaNeue and Adobe's. "HelveticaNeue" takes priority over "75 HeleveticaNeue", for example. Similar issues with Helvetica condensed and others. A minor inconvenience at the moment, but projects with over 20+ fonts takes a while to prep.

I received this from Extensis regarding the quark 8 plug-in that many are waiting for:

Unfortunately, there no plan to update the plug-in for Quark Xpress 8, instead if you seek maximum compatibility you will be required to purchase the software upgrade that has been announced for sometime soon this fall. If you have any questions regarding possible work-arounds, please contact technical support at 503 274 7030.

:-O

 Fat lot of use that is.

So now Extensis Fusion is of less use to me than it was - don't they realise people may now decide to change to some other font organiser?

Very short-sighted of them!

I was "further advised" in a subsequent e-mail to extensis that it will be an update to Suitcase Fusion, not a new program. So look for a "fusion_2" update in October.

I don't mind paying nominal $$$ for upgrades "assuming" they fix other issues as well....

....which remains to be seen.

So at the moment there's no auto-activation available for Quark 8 in any font management scheme! Can't Quark lean on Extensis and get them to issue a plug-in? And why should we have to pay for an update if we only want one plug-in? I've used Suitcase since version 3, and never before had any complaint about Extensis.

While they're at it they might consider the fact that FontAgent Pro can also auto-activate fonts for Photoshop - something Fusion can't. So if FontAgent gets their act together first and issues a plug-in for Quark 8 ...

I think what this is telling us is that we QuarkXpress users are a dwindling minority of desktop publishers. There are so few of us left that the xtension developers don't find it worth their time to make plug-ins for QuarkXpress.

 We bought version 8 only because we need to create multilingual documents on occasion, and it was far cheaper to buy 8 than adding a license for "Passport" to our version 7.  However, except when I need to create a document in French or Spanish, I use exclusively version 7. Besides being too inconvenient to manually activate fonts, version 8 is too prone to crashing. Not to mention that contrary to Quark's hype, the user interface is ugly and distracting.

We shall see how Extensis' wonderful new version of font management software works. If it's no better than their current offering, this will close the door on future upgrades of QuarkXpress for us.

Hai Rowettd, I wouldn't close that door just yet. CS4 is definately on it's way so I don't expect the same 'rush out and create a plug in for InDesign treatment'. They know that major upgrades are coming and their fat cat wallet holding philosophy is, if someone can a££ord the major upgrade, then a smaller donation to make it run better 'won't hurt'. dd72