#Extensis suitcase fusion 6 upgrade upgrade#

FEX is pretty seamless and worth a try though.īTW, tested the FEX upgrade work-around on my home MBP and it doesn't work, so don't waste your time if you know about it. Personally, I went with FAP since it's a more mature, proven program and I need to make sure our stations are productive and not bogged down with issues. So, I would recommend avoiding Fusion, which I know there are content users, but with over 16 years in advertising and being a long-time Suitcase user, it just never was a good program compared to others. We bought FAP4 multi-seat licenses at 40% cross-grade discount (same as FAP3 to FAP4 price). I asked if they had upgrade or competitive/cross-grade pricing and they do. Told them I was a previous user forced to go to Fusion. I feel this is the king of font managers and requires little to no babysitting.Ĭons: None except for price, more expensive than FEX, but. Pros: Loved this before, demo was awesome.

Still a young program and involves some interactions (less than Suitcase). $40 for limited time (50% off)Ĭons: Free not compatible with CS4, must use paid version. Pros: Good as a free program, better as paid (demo'd). Also requires 10.5 which we are on 10.4.11 and that upgrade isn't an option at the moment. Now to this past 2 weeks, as i said we upgraded to CS4 so I started researching before doing it company-wide. On my personal MBP, I use(d) FontExplorerX (FEX) and was surprised at how good it was for being free. Again, while Extensis did improve it, I really hated using Fusion (since we paid for multiple seats). When we upgraded to CS3, we had to go with Suitcase Fusion since FAP was not compatible yet. Moved to FontAgent Pro (FAP) and was extremely happy, few problems over many years. Used Suitcase since Adobe kill theirs and hated every minute of it. I've personally used all of these over many years. We just upgraded to CS4 so this is a fresh subject for me.