Thursday, May 3, 2012

Google Docs gets new gallery of fonts and templates

The brand Google Docs almost disappeared after the arrival of the Drive, but the search giant still invests to improve service for collaborative editing of documents. In the official blog, the company announced the availability of 450 new sources, 60 new document templates, improved integration of images and other small updates.


The gallery shows all font styles available in Docs. To use sources beyond traditional Arial, Calibri, Droid Sans and Ubuntu, create a text document, access the font menu item and click the Add Fonts. In the window that opens, you can remove the least used types or add new ones, who would be distinguished background in the listing. Since there is a very nice look between 450 fonts, menus can sort them by popularity or display only the fonts with serifs.

Google improved the page templates and added new models in the service of documents. The changes, very welcome, promise to facilitate the creation of curricula, newsletters, recipes, photo albums and to help teachers assess their students by means of models with graphs and tables for notes. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but gives the expense.

Other features are also present small. Now you can add images stored in your account Drive or even take photos directly from your webcam, which can save some time on very specific occasions. The Docs even won improvements in accessibility, management and support for scripting languages ​​strangers where you write from right to left.