Re: Re[ft] ndering bold/italics styles from regular ttf fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Can I render the regular/bold styles from a regular style ttf fonts.
> I am having only regular styles ttf fonts. And I am using FT2 as the
> font engine.

Yes, you can artificially embolden fonts with FreeType (to a certain
extent).

> If suppose I want to render them in Italics or bold styles is it
> possible through FT2 functions?

You can't do italics, since this needs different glyph shapes.
However, you can artificially slant fonts with FreeType.

Everything is in the docs:

  http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-toc.html


    Werner