At 8:02 PM -0700 5/20/02, B J wrote:
>If an embedded font is only available in it's PLAIN style, does not
>have it's bold or italic style available. e.g Arial Unicode MS is
>vailable only in it's plain form. For such fonts there is no way we
>can show boldface in PDF document.
That is pretty much a correct statement.
>Will iText support this in future versions? ( Is it possible to
>generate boldface font info from plain font info, while embedding
>can the same be applied?)
>
what you are asking for is called "faux bold" (fake bold) - a
process whereby the glyph is redrawn multiple times or line widths
are increased in order to give a "bold like" appearance. Since you
could do either/both of these things as easily as iText could, I
don't see why putting such a feature into iText would be good.
Leonard
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