Google has just announced an update to its popular online document editor, Google Docs. This new updated added 450 new fonts to Google docs. These fonts had already been listed on Google’s Web Fonts site for web designers.
Google has also adopted a smart way to add these fonts. All added fonts will not suddenly appear in your font list to make drop down list long. You have an option to add any of your desired font from “Add fonts” at the very bottom, which will take you to a menu of all the Google Web Fonts available. Once you’ve selected new fonts, you’ll be able to select them from the font menu.
This update also brings more than 60 new templates and improved support for screen readers in Docs. One more noticable feature is for images. Users can now search and insert images in any document. Google has also integrated Google Drive with this update and webcam support.
Now you can also set the default page size for your new documents.
Here is the list of changes posted by Google
- Google Drive launched as a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all your stuff.
- There are now a few more options for inserting images in Docs, including inserting from Google Drive, searching for images from the LIFE Photo archive, or taking a snapshot with your webcam.
- Charts in spreadsheets now has support for minor gridlines and options to customize the formats of axis labels
- Accessibility in Docs got better with support for screenreaders in presentations and with the addition of NVDA to our list of supported screenreaders.
- From File > Page setup… you can now set the default page size for your new documents.
- It’s now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that might use them.
- Apps Script had many improvements, including
- A new ScriptService for programmatically publishing your scripts and controlling when they run.
- A new function to find the root folder of someone’s Drive.
- An increase in the allowed attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
- An increase in the size of docs files you can create from 2MB to 50MB.
- There are now over 60 new templates in our template gallery.
