[Devel] Re: Adding bold/italic style flags to Type1 fonts

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Adobe has a tech note that describes the weights and styles used in Type 1
fonts.  Unfortunately, the name of the TN escapes me right now.

Lucida Bright uses DemiBold for its bold variant (the actual /FontName is
/LucidaBright-Demi).  And some fonts on the Macintosh actually use an oblique
font when the italic variant is selected (Courier for one, and the older version
of Optima.  The newer version of Optima has a true italic variant).

Tom

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Keith Packard wrote:

> 
> My font matcher really likes to have the style_flags field include 
> bold/italic booleans; here's a patch that adds these fields to the Type1
> parser.
> 
> The italic flag is easy to do; I'm a bit concerned about the bold flag.
> Instead of a nice numeric or boolean value, Type1 fonts have a weight
> name; I've added two obvious bold names, but I'm sure there are "bold"
> Type1 fonts that use a different weight name.  Adding more is easy enough,
> perhaps someone with a more extension Type1 collection might generate a
> more complete set of weight names.
> 
> If this patch should go elsewhere, please let me know.  I expect I'll
> find more little patches like this to send along.
>