Re: [ft] Bad emulation of boldness.

[Daniel M.]

David Turner wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> the problem is in the client libraries using FreeType to render the
> text. 2.2.1 provides both outline and bitmap emboldening functions,
> and the latter is capable of generating output exactly equal to your
> "good" screenshot.
>
> more precisely, the problem is that these libraries only use the
> vector emboldening algorithm, which only gives satisfying results
> with anti-aliase text.
>
> I would provide a patch if I had time, I recommend you to file
> bugs against libXft, Cairo, and probably OpenOffice.org if this
> is a big concern to you.

Thanks, I submitted bug reports to Cairo and libXft (IDs: 8604 & 8605).
I am not sure what to submit to OpenOffice.org, since I don't use that
font with OOo, so I left it out.

Daniel.