ZoomText/Fusion – Enable the new xFont smoothing in version 2024

ZoomText/Fusion – Enable the new xFont smoothing in version 2024


Problem

A ZoomText/Fusion 2024 customer experiences poor font smoothing in Microsoft Office applications.

 

Resolution

  1. From version 2024.2312 ZoomText/Fusion has newly refactored magnification engine that supports better font smoothing, to enable this support one must enable it in the Early Adopter Program dialogue UI.
  2. From version 2024.2403 ZoomText xFont is enabled by default and will work with Microsoft Office 365 installations version 2307 and later.
  3. Please use the steps below to enable this feature.  
Info
Freedom Scientific inform us that work is currently ongoing to roll out similar quality smoothing to the major browsers during the 2024 cycle.
 
1.      Click on the ZoomText/Fusion window or press CONTROL+CAPSLOCK+U to open the main window. 
2.     Then click Zoomtext > Help > Early Adopter Program.
3.    Then select the checkbox xFont for Office 365.

Note: 
If you clear the check box, you turn off xFont functionality for Office 365.

4.      Click OK and restart the software.

5.     Restart any Office 365 apps that are running.  The xFont smoothing should now available when using Outlook 365, Word 365, and Excel 365.


Note: 
When you enable xFont using the Early Adopter Program, it automatically enables xFont smoothing in the Smoothing tab of the Preferences dialog box.

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