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Extensis acquires DiamondSoft

updated 12:05 pm EDT, Mon June 30, 2003


, the developer of the font management software solution Font Reserve. DiamondSoft will retain its office based in Mill Valley, California and operate as the Bay Area office for Extensis. Extensis will continue to market and support both Suitcase and Font Reserve products and will be working with development teams in Portland and the Bay Area to integrate and extend technologies from both font management products into new and innovative solutions in 2004, according the press release.


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    Consolidation...

    Diamondsoft probably saw the writing on the wall with Font Book in 10.3. The third party font management market on the Mac will be quite small once Panther ships, if Font Book lives up to the hype (in the DP, it only activiates fonts in Cocoa apps).

    insider software better get Font Agent Pro running right, or it will be next.

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    Noooooo

    I love FR. Never cared for Suitecase. But FR has been one of my favorite programs.

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    Supporting BOTH apps?

    Why in the world would you want to split your attention to two competing products? For that matter, why are they maintaining both offices? Why are they trying to bet on every horse in the field?

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    Windows

    They are probably going to shift FR to more of a Windows product and keep Suitcase in the Mac space.

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    and Alsoft

    there may still be two competitors in the market if Alsoft ships MasterJuggler 3, which they do claim to be working on.

    I got the impression that Font Book was fairly basic compared to what Suitcase/FR claim to provide. Is there a lot more to Font Book than was demoed for Panther, or are the third-party products just overhyped?

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    s***!!

    Bye bye Font Reserve. It's only a matter of time...

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    Suitcase will go too

    From what I understand, Panther will finally have a font managing feature or app. It's about time. But that means that third-party apps may simply leave the Mac platform.

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    type reunion capabilities

    Anybody know if Panther supports type reunion capabilities as system feature?
    Now, a Carbon application can't present a menu font grouped by family. This is a serious handicap for a designer (Think in Macromedia FreeHand, by example).

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