Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!fuug!news.funet.fi!cc.tut.fi!cc.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: How does Adobe do it?? Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 23:30:40 GMT References: <1991Jun8.122230.991@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <14007@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: rmh@apple.com's message of 11 Jun 91 20:49:49 GMT In article <14007@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes: TrueType can produce boldface and italics from a plain TT font by thickening or slanting the outlines. That's what it's doing with the Symbol font. But this kind of automatically-generated variation generally doesn't look as nice as a specially-designed boldface or italic. So, many Actually the italic face is a completely different from the roman face and it cannot be produced by simple calculations. The face produced this way is slanted, not italics and they should not be mixed up. They are separate styles in typesetting no matter what TrueType (or anything else for that matter) does. -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe