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Extensis to host expert font panels and seminars at Macworld

349788497 4528ba3a55 m Extensis to host expert font panels and seminars at MacworldExtensis tells us that it will host a series of expert font panels and presentations at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Extensis will present daily sessions that highlight font management specialists and industry authorities in the Extensis booth (#826) on the Macworld Conference & Expo show floor.

On Tuesday, January 9th, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., well-known font evangelist Stephen Coles will lead the discussion titled “The Art of Type” with a panel of expert typographers discussing the joys and pitfalls of type design.

On Wednesday, January 10th, from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Extensis product marketing manager Halstead York will lead an expert panel titled “Working with Type in Design Applications.” Experts included in this session are Thomas Phinney, Program Manager for Adobe, respected designer and author Andrew Shalat, and Martin Stein, Vice President of Corporate Solutions for Extensis. In this session insiders discuss the technologies, techniques and challenges of working with fonts in the leading layout applications.

The highlighted speaker for Thursday, January 11th, and Friday, January 12th, is acclaimed type designer Chank Diesel. Chank will be presenting “High-Octane Type” from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and “Working with OpenType” from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Extensis launches online forum discussion site

I’d like to think the following announcement had something to do with the recent discussion in our own Forums regarding font activation software. But I must concede that it is more likely that Extensis (the maker of the font activation and organization utility, Suitcae Fusion) realizes that the internet is indeed a conversation and the best way to be in on the discussion taking place about their own software is to host it and facilitate it.

Extensis today officially launched its new online forums site for open discussion on all things related to Extensis and its product lines. Community members are encouraged to post tips, tricks, questions and general discussion on font and digital asset management markets.

Bravo, Extensis. Let’s hope this forum serves as a place for users to freely express all aspects of Extensis’ software that concern them… the good and the bad.

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