On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Josh Andler wrote:
Hahaha... I'm not saying I'm in favor of it from a designer perspective. I'm in favor of users not complaining because they can make it bold in Word.
Personally, I don't think that we should encourage bad workflows. If we let abominations grow, they will eventually come to bite us in the arse.
Except my suggestion wasn't about using this kind of approach for faux oblique/bold. It was about using it for large font families like http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/minion/.
Good to know. But if I recall correctly, the original discussion was about doing faux stuff because I can swear italics was part of that discussion too. I could totally be misremembering though.
So could I :)
It's too easy to gain a reputation of a toy application.
I don't disagree. But let's be honest... we are considered a toy application by a lot of designers for a number of good reasons already.
That doesn't sound like a great reason to commit another crime to me :)
While many things can be worked around, a designer shouldn't be forced to jump through hoops to get something print ready.
Is faux bold/oblique actually print ready? :)
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org