Re: [Freetype] Helvetica-Oblique.pfa font on Solaris, IRIX

[David Turner]

Hello Albert,

Albert Chin wrote:
> I build Qt 3.1.2 with fontconfig 2.1.92 for antialias support. I
> started qtconfig and enabled antialias support. I quite qtconfig and
> restarted it, only to find that the font it selected for a "normal"
> font was Helvetica-Oblique.pfa, not Helvetica.pfa. The reason for this
> is detection by fontconfig that the slant value of the font was "0".
> Looking at the font in pfaedit confirms this. However, I just looked
> at the raw Helvetica-Oblique.pfa file and see this:
>   /ItalicAngle -12 def
>
> I'm using FreeType 2.1.2.
Strange, strange. FreeType doesn't expose the /ItalicAngle property, but
it uses it to determine wether to set the "italic" bit flag in
face->style_flags.

I suspect that your font is a "synthetic type 1"  that embeds the normal
Type 1 font within additionnal code to "slant" it artificially. FreeType
is supposed to handle these cases well, so I'm a bit surprised.

Could you send me this font privately so that I study it ?

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)