nanogui: Thread: Italic TrueType (FreeType) Fonts


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Subject: Italic TrueType (FreeType) Fonts
From: "Gil Glass" ####@####.####
Date: 16 Nov 2006 05:41:47 +0000
Message-Id: <6ECE57DF49376146B91A92A3C37EFC0E02587AFA@SJEXCH03.ds.jdsu.net>

Hello,

 

Is it possible to display a TrueType font italicized in Nano-X if an
italic variant of the font does not exist?  It seems to me that
Microsoft Word can make any font italic whether an italic variant exists
or not.  Can this be done with Nano-X and the FreeType libraries?

 

Thanks!

 

Cheers,

Gil Glass

Senior Software Engineer

Telecom Field Services Division

JDSU

Germantown, MD, USA

+1 (240) 404-2551

 

Subject: Re: [nanogui] Italic TrueType (FreeType) Fonts
From: "Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date: 21 Nov 2006 03:00:48 +0000
Message-Id: <143901c70d19$26c61e10$6401a8c0@winXP>

> Is it possible to display a TrueType font italicized in Nano-X if an
italic variant of the font does not exist?  It seems to me that
Microsoft Word can make any font italic whether an italic variant exists
or not.  Can this be done with Nano-X and the FreeType libraries?

 
I think the Freetype library will produce an italic version, but 
I haven't checked to see whether we ever ask it to.
We could produce our own "automatic italic", by
bit shifting any in-core format bitmap font image, but
that code is also not yet written.

Regards,

Greg
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