On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 00:28 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
As for the whole faux faces thing, first of all I'd rather see some proof that the quality of autogenerated "missing" faces is good enough. I know that Behdad means well, but I can't recall a single typeface that wouldn't need tweaking after applying weight/skew adjustment in FontForge.
It's too easy to gain a reputation of a toy application.
Also, try to think of it in terms of compatibility. What happens when you save an EPS or an SVG from Inkscape that uses an autogenerated typeface? Will Adobe Illustrator users be able to open it correctly?
Yes, there is that too. I think the use of faux faces is more interesting for browsers where one may need to handle missing font faces or even individual glyphs since what people have installed on their systems is different (I saw a Mozilla(?) bug report where the Chinese bold glyphs were missing when the other glyphs were all bold). But in a design program, I think one wants only genuine font faces. My inclination is to disable faux faces in the UI.
Tav