ZoomText - Font Smoothing problems and development road map

ZoomText - Font Smoothing problems and development road map

Problem

ZoomText/Fusion customers may face problems with the quality of font smoothing in ZoomText.  These may still present with older versions of Microsoft Office and with the current main web browsers.  Detailed below is the position with respect to font smoothing expectations by ZoomText/Fusion version.


Affected products

  • ZoomText
  • Fusion

Resolution

See below notes, in particular for 2024.

ZoomText/Fusion 2024

  1. ZoomText/Fusion 2024 now has xFont restored for the most current versions of Microsoft office starting from build 2307.  The first 2024 release to support this was the December release of ZoomText/Fusion 2024 in December 2023 please see 2024 links below.
  2. Continued development efforts are being made during the 2025 cycle to restore xFont to major browsers, being rolled out as bespoke per application fixes.

Available 2024 updates

For those whose license supports 2024 the latest versions of Zoomtext and Fusion are available on the below page links:

  1. ZoomText 2024
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/ZoomText

  2. Fusion 2024
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/fusion


ZoomText/Fusion 2023

  1. ZoomText 2023 and below are no longer in active development and will not be updated to fix font smoothing issues.  Customers are advised to update to 2025 where possible.



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