On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:02 PM Werner LEMBERG <wl@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ha, he was there, and I sent him to this list :-) Oh, really. > If I understand everything correctly he wants to achieve the > following: Let's assume that normal shape is value 0 and fully > emboldened is value 100. If he is asking for a font with bold > value N, he wants that fontconfig returns a font that is a bit bolder, > for example a font corresponding to bold value N + 5. fontconfig only provides a boolean value for emboldening. How those information is used is really up to rendering libraries or applications though, this boolean value is typically used to call FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden API. there should be nothing more than that at this moment. so even if modifying a weight in fontconfig, it won't take any effects AFAIK. Or is there any way to adjust a weight for emboldening? if there are, aims should be accomplished with own config as long as applications/libraries supports it. if not... I'm afraid there isn't too much we can do. > > While FreeType can embolden fonts, it's a very limited operation > because it can cause ugly artifacts. The only other thing FreeType > can offer is stem darkening at smaller sizes for CFF (and I told him > that already). > > > Werner -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
