Dave Craven wrote:
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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Allan
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:03 PM
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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).
Yes, it would be helpful to be able to resize the outline in an outlined
letter.
Try using fontwork. (Look up Fontwork in Help.) Of course, this is much
more troublesome to get right. But it is just the thing for a few
special headlines, although I haven’t used it myself very much.
Jim Allan
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