Extensis
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Extensis is a software company based in Portland
, Oregon
. Its three main products are Extensis Portfolio, Suitcase Fusion, and Universal Type Server.
Extensis and its parent company Creativepro.com were sold to ImageX in year 2000, which in turn sold Extensis to Japanese content-management company Celartem Technology in 2002. In 2003, Extensis acquired competitor DiamondSoft and their Font Reserve applications (stand-alone and client-server). In January 2006, Extensis merged its two font management products, Font Reserve and Suitcase into a single product called Suitcase Fusion.
(DAM) solution. Portfolio was known as Fetch when Extensis acquired it from Adobe
in 1996. Fetch was previously owned by Aldus
.
Extensis Portfolio Server was soon released after as a scalable DAM solution for workgroups. With the addition of support for SQL, Portfolio Server's appeal has increased with successive versions.
Font Reserve was a Mac OS
and Windows
compatible font manager sold by Diamondsoft, and later Extensis. Some of its core features were incorporated into a new product, Suitcase Fusion in January 2006.
In January 2008 Extensis pre-announced Universal Type Server (replacing both Suitcase Server X1 and Font Reserve Server) to offer a new solution to centralized font management. Universal Type Server 1.0 was released in June 2008.
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
. Its three main products are Extensis Portfolio, Suitcase Fusion, and Universal Type Server.
Extensis and its parent company Creativepro.com were sold to ImageX in year 2000, which in turn sold Extensis to Japanese content-management company Celartem Technology in 2002. In 2003, Extensis acquired competitor DiamondSoft and their Font Reserve applications (stand-alone and client-server). In January 2006, Extensis merged its two font management products, Font Reserve and Suitcase into a single product called Suitcase Fusion.
Products
Extensis Portfolio is a commercial digital asset managementDigital asset management
Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets...
(DAM) solution. Portfolio was known as Fetch when Extensis acquired it from Adobe
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
in 1996. Fetch was previously owned by Aldus
Aldus
Aldus Corporation, named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing field. The company was founded by Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman,...
.
Extensis Portfolio Server was soon released after as a scalable DAM solution for workgroups. With the addition of support for SQL, Portfolio Server's appeal has increased with successive versions.
Font Reserve was a Mac OS
Mac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
compatible font manager sold by Diamondsoft, and later Extensis. Some of its core features were incorporated into a new product, Suitcase Fusion in January 2006.
In January 2008 Extensis pre-announced Universal Type Server (replacing both Suitcase Server X1 and Font Reserve Server) to offer a new solution to centralized font management. Universal Type Server 1.0 was released in June 2008.