Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > 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.
>
> Is it considered a bug?

No.  Embolding with fixed values is always problematic.  Recent
FreeType version have a function which enables the user to fine-tune
the boldness.

> > 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,

Uh, oh, ttf2bdf uses FreeType 1 which isn't supported since years.
The -w option of ttf2bdf doesn't modify the font at all, it only
adjusts the used X Windows font name within the BDF file.

> 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.

I suggest to use FontForge to do what you want.  This can be
controlled with scripts also.


    Werner