Re: [Freetype] Faking bold and italic

[Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen]

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>Anyone have suggestions on faking bold and italic styles when font
>files don't exist for these styles? I've noticed that something
>like this happens on windoze. For italic I planned modifying the
>shear. For bold I was thinking of doing an offset double strike
>porportional to the point size. Can anyone suggest values?

I sometimes fake bold by printing the same character several (i.e. 3) each
time shifted a little horizontal and/or vertical.

                    Jouk


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