Hello everybody.
Generally, X renders .ttf fonts exactly as Windows does, but there is the following problem: usually .ttf file for a particular font contains a number of styles: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic, so that when application uses bold font, it uses Bold style instead of Regular. But when .ttf doesn't contain Bold style, for example, and bold font is required, boldness is emulated. Now, Windows emulates boldness perfectly, but X does it really badly. For example, see the difference between Windows and X in bold font rendering in the following screnshots: Windows: http://xt.nm.ru/monaco-win-10pt_1.tif Linux: http://xt.nm.ru/monaco-lin-10pt.tif The font used in a screenshot is Monaco (.ttf version), but there is the same problem with other fonts which don't have Bold style "built-in", for example Ariel Mono and others. I use libfreetype 2.2.1 (Ubuntu Edgy). Is it possible somehow to improve the situation? Daniel. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype