On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 15:42 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Because fake italics and bold faces are an abomination :)
That's true for Western typography with the Latin alphabet, in general,
although even there it does have uses, e.g. for display faces used in
light colours on a dark backgroun
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:57:00AM +1300, Jehan Pagès wrote:
[...]
> I would personally not be against a feature request along this line.
> Giving the right feedback to users, and making them informed and
> active rather than passive in their choices, is totally my view of
> things.
> If you write
You should know the situation for the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts.
There are more than 15,000 characters to be designed, so that little font
set has bold and italics face.
In those countries, the bug reported above is very serious and critical.
We have to have options to use simulated bo
El 04/10/13 05:12, Jehan Pagès escribió:
It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in
2.8.6 for Windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110
In my oppinion, that's not a bug, it's an improvement.:-)
Bold and Italics variants should be designed specifica
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:37 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 typograph
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:37 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 person
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
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
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.
Alexandre
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Hi,
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 10:12 AM, Jehan Pagčs wrote:
>> Also we have a bunch of fixes in gimp-2-8 branch anyway, and it is
>> soon 4 months since 2.8.6. Maybe it is a good time to make a minor
>> release? I feel like there is no much reason to
On 10/04/2013 10:12 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
Hi,
About the broken font support, which was simply in the end
fontconfig's configuration which kept some absolute path from the
Linux where it was cross-compiled from, I think it is a pretty broken
stuff.
It was the reason of why italic/bold could not
Hi,
About the broken font support, which was simply in the end
fontconfig's configuration which kept some absolute path from the
Linux where it was cross-compiled from, I think it is a pretty broken
stuff.
It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in
2.8.6 for Windows.
h
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