Oh yeah, very nice.  IMO, this looks much better than the current method
even without kerning.  What would be necessary to support kerning as
well?

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 10:44, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
> The fake italics look bad when done on aa fonts.  I am thinking of
> implementing real italics.  This would be really easy code-wise, except that
> I am not sure it's possible to do real italics without decent kerning
> without the result looking really ugly--currently character boxes cannot
> overlap.  What do people think?
> 
> I just ran PalmFontConv on an italic font, and plugged it into Plucker as a
> default font.  A screenshot of the results are at:
> http://prussfamily.us/italic.png and the font itself (generated for both OS5
> and Sony OS4) is at http://prussfamily.us/italicUtopia.prc .  My opinion is
> that it looks significantly better than the standard fake italics, even
> though some character pairs like ff look quite bad.
> 
> Alex
> 
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