Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness.

[Chia-I Wu]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:39:02AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 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.
FontForge seems to ignore the hints in the font.  I use gbdfed instead
to generate the bitmaps.

That is, use gbdfed to generate a bdf font (10pt at 96 dpi).  Then use
FontForge to open the original Monaco.ttf, import this bdf font, and
generate a bitmap-embedded TrueType font.  The result is:

http://people.debian.org.tw/~olv/freetype/monaco-lin-13px_bitmap.png

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Regards,
olv