Re: [ft-devel] problem with "bold" quality recognition

[yuliana_zigangirova]

Thank you very much for the answer.


Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have two bold fonts, which have "bold" style marked in the "name"
>> table (Name ID 2 - "Bold") and a "bold" weight (as shown me by
>> Fontlab), but Freetype's "face->style_flags & FT_STYLE_FLAG_BOLD"
>> returns false.
> 
> Looking into NettTFMonoBold.ttf, I can confirm this.
> 
>> Where does Freetype look for a bold and italic style?
> 
> For the SFNT format, bit 5 in the `fsSelection' field of the `OS/2'
> table is used.  This bit is not set which looks like an error in the
> font itself.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freetype-devel mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
> 
> 

-- 
View this message in context: 
http://old.nabble.com/problem-with-%22bold%22-quality-recognition-tp32873589p32873789.html
Sent from the Freetype - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.