Re: [Freetype] apply transformation to get styles

[Dave Williss]

Draw the text twice.  Once where you want it and once one pixel
to the right.  For large text sizes, you may need to repeat to get any
noticeable boldness. This is what we do to get synthetic bold when a
bold version of a font isn't available.

 -- Dave Williss
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Davide Bozza" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: [Freetype] apply transformation to get styles


> Dear all,
> I have just subscribed to this list and I have a newbie question.
> 
> I already read that with FreeType library styles (Italic, Bold) can be
> simulated by transformations but while I found some examples for Italic
> I haven't found examples for Bold.
> 
> Have someone tried to get Bold from a normal font?
> If yes can you give me an example of transformation matrix you use?
> 
> Thanks.
> Davide
> 
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