4 Jun 2011 yosch   » (Master)

LibreOffice 3.4 and major font improvements

The latest major release of Libreoffice, version 3.4, besides all the many improvements, speadups and fixes from this development cycle, provides various very nice font-related goodies:
  • a better font menu with previews for complex scripts and improved alignements of the entries
  • better font rendering via Cairo
  • integration of the improved and much faster Graphite2 smart font engine essential for many languages


A huge thank you to the Document Foundation and all developers involved for their very valuable work!

If you haven't already, you should consider how you can contribute.

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