> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Allan > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] Re: Font effects > > 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
After further review, bold affects the size of the characters, but not the stroke weight of the lines for the outline version of the font. The outline is thin enough to appear grey, even with the size set to 32pt. Another nice-to-have might be an optional fill-color for outline fonts (in addition to font color and background color). I'm just toying with the look of a cover for a tri-fold brochure. First letter of each word is solid, so it spells a word going down the left side, and the rest of the letters of each word are outline, to be more subtle. Unfortunately, a tad too subtle ;-) No joy yet when tinkering with the various printer driver options, but I've got more to try. OOo 2.4 on XPsp2, btw. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
