In the last installment I talked about how you know it’s time for a brand refresh. So by now you know we decided to go for it. For me, there were 2 driving reasons to tackle a brand refresh now: 1- Evolution: This company is vastly different than it was 10 years ago. We are [...]

I’m happy to let you know that we have been able to extend the deadline a great bundle deal. Until March 1, 2012, when you purchase or upgrade Suitcase Fusion 3 for Macintosh, we will also throw in the font identification tool FontGenius. FontGenius identifies unknown fonts quickly – locating new fonts for your

How files are named and organized into folders is an important part of managing assets whether or not you’re using DAM software. Here are three articles from the DAM Learning Center about files and folders that can help anyone that’s responsible for organizing large collections of files: File Naming Best Practic

So, you have a massive pile of disorganized fonts. Some of them are collected with InDesign files, others haphazardly thrown into a network folder, and more in the various font folders on your mac. We recently talked about Data Deduplication on the blog, so you’ve probably decided to get your rear in gear and organize

If you’re looking for video archive software to replace Apple’s now defunct Final Cut Server, check out our digital asset mangenent software: Portfolio Server 10. Since the demise of Final Cut Server we’ve helped a number of companies make the switch to Portfolio Server and have helped the process by adding su

Companies Evolve/ So when is the right time to embark on a rebrand? Perhaps never. But don't let that stop you. Extensis is going through the process and we are sharing it with you in hopes that one of us might learn something!

Join me for this webcast next week where I will show you practical steps to keep your production workflow smooth & your font use legal. With recent lawsuits surrounding the improper use of fonts, staying on the right side of the law is critical. Webcast Details: Thursday, February 2nd 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST [...]

Join me for this webcast next week where I will show you practical steps to keep your production workflow smooth & your font use legal. With recent lawsuits surrounding the improper use of fonts, staying on the right side of the law is critical. Webcast Details: Thursday, February 2nd 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST [...]

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was not so long ago accused of taking on a task worthy of He Who Must Not Be Named: unlicensed font use. Well, it appears today that the Dark Lord has lost influence because NBC Universal and P22 Type Foundry have settled their lawsuit out of court. The original lawsuit [...]

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was not so long ago accused of taking on a task worthy of He Who Must Not Be Named: unlicensed font use. Well, it appears today that the Dark Lord has lost influence because NBC Universal and P22 Type Foundry have settled their lawsuit out of court. The original lawsuit [...]

The duplication of files, fonts and other data can be a huge problem for any team. Not only does it fill up storage media, it also makes it incredibly more difficult to locate what you’re looking for. If you’ve had a creative team for very long, you will inevitably start building up a collection of [...]

Extensis Portfolio NetPublish makes the right files available to the right people automatically. This video provides an overview of the NetPublish solution pack available for Portfolio Server.

Next Thursday evening (Jan 19), I’ll be at the Type Directors Club giving a talk about forensic typography: using fonts, typography and printing technology to detect forged documents, and a number of the cases I’ve been asked to investigate. Learn how stupid mistakes ruined perfectly good forged documents, from

It happens more quickly than you think. Someone in your company downloads a font from the internet, uses it in a project, everyone likes it and it is quickly copied from one machine to the another. What happens if the original font was: pirated not licensed for corporate use purchased only for a single user [...]

The Portfolio Server Web Client provides easy access to all of your cataloged assets. This video shows you how to use the web client to organize and convert all of your files.

Extensis Portfolio Server is digital asset management software that’s easy to setup and use. This video provides an overview of Portfolio Server, NetPublish and NetMediaMAX.

2011 was a bumper year for typography and design. There were great advancements in font technology as well as the sheer variety of fonts available. I foresee 2012 being a great year for fonts and typography, wherever they are in use. Continued push toward the Web We start off 2012 with thousands of typefaces now available

Guest Post by Carli Edvalson, Extensis HR Generalist As many people are still struggling to make ends meet and stay afloat, for families in need, the Holidays only magnify these struggles. Again this year, we had the opportunity to leverage the spirit of the season and bring some joy to those that otherwise have very [...]

WebVisions is a great conference that explores the future of technology, the web, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. For a limited time, you can save 40% on conference passes to WebVisions NYC and receive a FREE Web Typography Best Practices Workshop pass ($250 value) to “Half the Web Sucks, How Do [..

Every year we gather as a company to celebrate the holidays and the end of the year. This year we gathered at the local Portland restaurant Paragon where we were treated with festive food, drink and the chance to spend some time out of the office with our hard-working team. Thanks to all of our [...]

The Extensis Europe Team were blown away by their Christmas activity this year – literally! As the weather was a bit chilly, it was decided that we would go indoor skydiving… Despite being chronically nervous about anything I’m not completely in control of (seriously, I didn’t learn to drive until I was

Today we released a free v10.1 update for Portfolio Server 10 users that includes: Support for OS X Lion Support for Apple ProRes video codec Improved login and folder navigation performance in the Web Client Support for preview clips in the Desktop Client Option to open original video files in external players using the De

If you’ve been looking for a tool that will help you identify the fonts that you see out in the wild, look no further. For a limited time, when you purchase or upgrade Suitcase Fusion 3 for Mac, you will get FontGenius from FontGear for FREE. Check out this font software bundle here.  It’s a great [...]

Join us for a webcast about Australian video production agency 50 Kaliber Films who is using Portfolio Server to manage media assets for Ford, BHP Billiton, Oakley, and Beijing Olympic Games. Chief Technology Officer at 50 Kaliber Films, Evan Butson, will present on how he helped his company and clients save time by migrat

We’d like to bring your attention to three leading magazine publishers that are using Universal Type Server to manage and distribute fonts to their publishing groups across the globe to secure font compliance across their organizations. Washingtonian Magazine, MetroCorp and Future Publishing have selected Universal T

While you may not immediately think of them as such, fonts are software. Licensed just like any other piece of software on your computer, you need to be sure that you’ve purchased the appropriate licenses for the fonts and types of uses that you expect. Over the past few years a number of organizations have [...]

For the Thanksgiving Holiday, Extensis teamed up with Portland’s Metropolitan Family Resources, a non-profit organization that provides emergency support services to families in need. Though Metropolitan Family Resources doesn’t typically doesn’t offer a Thanksgiving program, they were gracious enough to assist Extens

Are you a soon-to-be Portfolio Server user, someone in an IT department, or maybe a little bit of both? If so, head over to the DAM Learning Center for an article on combining the powers of end-users and IT for success with digital asset management. The article begins with a “day in the life” of [...]

   I’m happy to announce that today we have added Google Web Fonts to the Web Font Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. This further expands the creative options available to web designers directly from Adobe Photoshop. With both WebINK and Google Web Fonts now available from the plug-in, designers have thousands of fonts t

The Suitcase Fusion Core is the background application that keeps your fonts active, communicates with the auto-activation plug-ins and more. In Suitcase Fusion 2 and earlier versions, the preferences for the Core were contained within the Mac OS X system preferences or the Windows Control Panel. With the release of Suitcas