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PORTLAND, OR – Extensis has now added support for Macintosh OS 10.4 Tiger to its premiere font management software, Suitcase Fusion 2. As of March 31, 2009, version 13.1 added support for OS 10.4 Tiger to the popular font manager. Although the original release of Suitcase Fusion 2 only supported OS 10.5 Leopard at the time, Extensis has since upgraded it to work with OS 10.6 Snow Leopard and now responded to customers to add backward compatibility to OS 10.4 Tiger.

According to Brian Berson, General Manager at Extensis, he announced, “We understand that times are tough for our customers right now,” and also stated, “By adding Tiger compatibility, users can benefit from the outstanding previews and performance of Suitcase Fusion 2 without upgrading their Mac OS .”

The latest release, version 13.2 offers compatibility for Windows 7 and version 13.2.1 for Macintosh OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The Windows version has feature parity with the Macintosh version. In the past, the Windows versions of many font managers has lagged behind the Macintosh versions. This is good news for Windows users because Suitcase Fusion 2 has some really neat features:

• Font previewing with a floating preview
• Plug-in based auto-activation for professional applications
• Custom Global Auto-Activation on an application-by-application level
• Portable, secure font vault plus option to add fonts in-place
• Font searching, tagging and classification options
• Scans and repairs corrupt fonts

Extensis has put together a really nice website where you can check out all the new features of Suitcase Fusion 2 and some really cool videos here: http://www.extensis.com/en/products/suitcasefusion2/.