Does your operating system support it? I bet it doesn't. At any rate, I've never seen this with scalable fonts. I'm sure there's a reason why the Latin Modern fonts were designed this way, but it's the first set I've seen of that kind.
Jeremias Maerki On 27.11.2007 13:44:57 Daniel Rosenberg wrote: > Ok, thanks, now I know the status of this. Is this 'multi sized' font > design unusual perhaps? > > / Daniel > > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:50 +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > No, it wouldn't be that easy (i.e. not a two hour job) and if we change > > something there, we should also handle font-stretch, font-variant and > > font substitution properly at the same time, which IMO are more > > important (font-stretch anyway). At any rate, it's possible, but to my > > knowledge Daniel is the first user to ask for font-size-dependent font > > selection. > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > > > > On 27.11.2007 11:28:20 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > > > Daniel Rosenberg wrote: > > > > Ok, so I can have only one entry for each unique font triplet? Is this > > > > due to a shortcoming in FOP, or due to limitations in PDF? > > > > > > It’s a shortcoming of FOP I’m afraid. Ideally, each time the font size > > > changes it should check if there is a font from the same family designed > > > for that size. > > > > > > The font sub-system has evolved quite a bit recently and I didn’t follow > > > the changes in detail, but I don’t believe this is something FOP is > > > doing, and I’m not even sure the current design can easily handle that. > > > Maybe font specialists will be able to provide more details. > > > > > > Vincent > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
