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Re: [ft] Font Style
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mpsuzuki |
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Re: [ft] Font Style |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:12:01 +0900 |
Hi
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:49:59 UT
Paresh Deshmukh <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to get a glyph with italic style
>but even after setting the style flag it won't
>change the glyph.
Do you mean flags in FT_FaceRec (e.g. style_flags)?
They are used to "indicate" the font properties,
not to give orders for synthesization to FreeType.
>I am going through old discussion of freetype
>list and find the freetype does not provide any
>facility to get Bold or Italic style.
Check ftsynth.c. However, they are still experimental
and should not be used for stable purpose, I think.
You can find discussion of embolding algorithm in
freetype-devel list. Also I recommend to check fontconfig
list for various trouble cases and reports for artificial
embolding and slanting.
> 1. Problem with bold: How can I write iteratively
> with different size for same font? it will be
> very slow .. is any better method is there.
Sorry I don't understand what you want to do. Are you trying
to display something like Windows' font manager sample text?
> 2. Italic Style: if set transform is used for italic
> effect. then what to do when we need to print 90,
> 180 or 270 degree with same effect?
Again I don't understand what you want to do.
- [ft] Font Style, Paresh Deshmukh, 2005/11/06
- Re: [ft] Font Style,
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