[Image-SIG] bold and italics of ttf fonts

[Ned Batchelder]

I don't know how OpenOffice creates the other variants.  Some programs 
(Firefox, for example) use double-striking to embolden a font, and 
skewing to create a false italic.  The screenshot you show could be a 
skewed italic, but the bold is clearly not just double-struck.  I would 
be interested to hear of other peoples' solutions to these problems.  
I've used skewing for italics, and it works well if you work over-sized 
and subsample down to get good antialiasing.

--Ned.

Stani Michiels wrote:
> Is it possible with PIL to use the bold and italics of a ttf font if
> there are no bold or italics fontfile present on the system. 
> My application Phatch let the user choose from all installed font files
> from a drop down list. For example the font Purisa does not have ttf
> files for bold or italics but openoffice manages to create these fonts
> somehow?
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14091782/Screenshot-1.png
>
> Is there a solution for pil to modify ttf fonts to bold or italics? Or
> is this impossible?
>
> Stani
>
> http://photobatch.stani.be
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