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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: Font styles proposal
Keywords: font style idea
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Date: 28 May 90 18:38:56 GMT
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In article <5520@hub.ucsb.edu> stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu () writes:
>It occured to me that there shouldn't be fixed styles. Each font should
>carry its own set of styles plus there should be some sort of code
>resource to style a font if that font doesn't directly support the wanted
>style. For example, if you wanted a Extra-Bold-Italic, but the font in
>use only had extra-bold, the Font Mgr would generate a nice extra-bold
>using the Font (I suppose I'm talking about TrueType or ATM) then run
>the image through a italicizer.

Can't do what you're saying.  The font could be slanted, but not
italicized.  For most fonts, serifed especially, the italic version
is not simply applying a slant to the plain style -- each character is
different.  What you should be able to do though, is have the font
manager list the available styles a la Adobe Type Reunion.




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