Extensis on Preparing for the End of PostScript Type 1 Fonts

Now I have been a regular user of Suitcase Fusion for years to manage fonts on my mac, and after 20 years I have accumulated a ton of fonts. And I honestly didn’t realize that PostScript fonts were losing support in Adobe as of January 2023. I have literally thousands of Postscript fonts and I used Connect Fonts (the current online version of what used to be Suitcase Fusion) to remove them from my font library. I kept a backup in case I run into someplace where I need one from an old project, but I don’t want them gumming up the works if they aren’t going to work in Adobe.

So here is a great article on the whole thing from Andrew Rhodes at Extensis.

And if you use Connect Fonts, it is very easy to find your soon to be outdated PostScript Fonts,

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 5 crashing Photoshop CC

Now I sweat by Extensis Suitcase Fusion as a great font management tool and love it’s auto font activation (though I do wish they would make a plug in for After Effects), but right now Extensis Suitcase Fusion 5’s autoactivation plug in is crashing Photoshop CC so it won’t launch.

Here is my crash log which I am posting for Extensis to see, and hopefully fix the issue.