Dave Craven wrote:
In writer, I select a font ("Comic Sans MS"). I select styles of
"Outline" and "Bold". Is there a way to adjust the weight of the lines?
Bold seems to have had negligible affect at best. The lines look more
grey when printed out.
There is no official way to adjust the weight of the lines alone in any
Truetype, Opentype, or Postscript font. OpenOffice.org uses standard
system routines which handle that kind of thing. The weight of the lines
in theory is always exactly what was designed by the font designer.
An exception is when a font family doesn’t have a bold member. Then the
standard system routines, called by OpenOffice.org, will algorithmically
generate a bolded typestyle.
So, for example, with Comic Sans MS, you could take the bold version of
the font and in a font editor change its name and set the weight to
regular. Then the system would see two separate fonts. It would
algorithmically bold either of them if you selected bold, which would
mean that the form bold typeface under a new name would now appear even
bolder.
That said, Comic Sans MS and Comic Sans MS Bold appear *very* different
in weight from one another when viewed on PCs available to me, whether
in OpenOffice Writer or in other applications. The difference is *far*
from negligible.
If lines in bold Comic Sans MS appear grey when printed out, then that
is a printer problem outside of OpenOffice.org, unless you can establish
that the lines appear different if you use another application to print
comparable material.
Many printer drivers have a save-toner function that can be turned off
or on. If turned on, solid blacks are likely to appear as grey. In some
cases this function might be available from a menu available on the
printer, which might override your driver settings. Check this out on
your system. Some printer drivers also have settings that allow you to
adjust printing darkness.
Jim Allan
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