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

[Sivaprasad CG]

which are all the FT2 functions to make the regular fonts to bold/italics
that is embolden/slant



Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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
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