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Previewing and printing fonts

Previewing and printing fonts

- Suitcase Fusion offers a number of ways to preview fonts to help you choose just the ones that you need. There are four types of previews that show a short amount of text in whatever fonts you have selected. I'll select my Adobe Garamond Pro family, and tip it open to preview all the fonts in it. Now I can select a preview type from the menu just below the preview area. So I can show the fonts as tiles, or I can use the quick type feature where I can type a line of my own text here or choose from the sample menu. I'll type in a little text. Note that you can type as much text as you want here, but you'll only see one line, and you can change the size of the preview with the slider. Waterfall shows your preview at four pre-set point sizes, and ABC 123 displays the alphabet in upper and lower case, plus numbers and symbols. And again, you can adjust the size with the slider. For any of the preview modes you have three buttons to change the font's activation status, to favorite it, and…

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