Re: [Devel] Need Bold, italic

[Nathan Hurst]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Now I would like to try adding bolding to the truetype font I am
> > using.  I have found reference to attributes in the documentation
> > but have not figured the proper way to select them.  Is there a
> > function call used to select these attributes?
> 
> What exactly do you want?  Make a TTF outline bolder?  This isn't
> supported since it is non-trivial (volunteers welcome to implement
> that).  Applying a transformation matrix you can only
> slant/rotate/distort the font.

Does a horizontal scale of say 1.01 give a bold effect?  What is the
correct def. of bold?

> A brute-force method is to print the produced pixel image slightly
> offset multiple times.

So bold means 1pixel wider?

njh