Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness.

[Daniel M.]

Chia-I Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:10:08PM +0200, Daniel M. wrote:
> > Is it possible somehow to improve the situation?
> The problem might be that the glyph drawing backend calls a convenient
> function provided by freetype to embolden the glyphs, which lacks
> parameters to control how embolden is done.  Enabling antialias should
> help:

Is it considered a bug? If so, I would like to report it and hopefully
somebody may be willing to fix it - I like antialiased fonts even less
than an ugly bold emulation.

> Another solution is to convert the font to a bitmap one for the pixel
> size used.  The convenient function uses different algorithm to embolden
> bitmap glyphs, which is similar to what Windows does.

It seems that ttf2bdf doesn't want to generate a bold version of a font
even when "-w Bold" option is used, though it is possible that I missed
something while reading a map page, going to take a better look at it
later. In any case, the best option is to make an original .ttf look
good.

Daniel.