Hi, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > >> It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in >> 2.8.6 for Windows. > > And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typography > isn't going to make us popular among professionals.
Well I personally have no opinion there. But I know that some people liked this. And in this case, I would say that this should not be our call. If people want simulated italic/bold, why prevent them? The "professionals" would use fonts with the right faces, that's all. :-) That does not break anything in the workflow of people who don't want to use this. In any case, massively breaking fontconfig is not the way to achieve this. ;-) Also if we were to make such a change, it would only pertain to Windows users, because that's the only release where we embed Fontconfig. Other users, at least on Linux (and I guess OSX too, no?), would have a system-wide fontconfig already and we are not going to override the user's custom configuration. But if a typography erudite wishes to get rid of this "criminal feature", one just has to delete the following file, and you are done: /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf (that's the Linux most common path. You can just find the equivalent for another installation/platform) And that's it! :-) Jehan > Alexandre > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
