I don't know how OpenOffice creates the other variants. Some programs
(Firefox, for example) use double-striking to embolden a font, and
skewing to create a false italic. The screenshot you show could be a
skewed italic, but the bold is clearly not just double-struck. I would
be interested to hear of other peoples' solutions to these problems.
I've used skewing for italics, and it works well if you work over-sized
and subsample down to get good antialiasing.
--Ned.
Stani Michiels wrote:
Is it possible with PIL to use the bold and italics of a ttf font if
there are no bold or italics fontfile present on the system.
My application Phatch let the user choose from all installed font files
from a drop down list. For example the font Purisa does not have ttf
files for bold or italics but openoffice manages to create these fonts
somehow?
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14091782/Screenshot-1.png
Is there a solution for pil to modify ttf fonts to bold or italics? Or
is this impossible?
Stani
http://photobatch.stani.be
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