Hi Friends,

        We just need a couple of final clarifications for the new user faq.  And fyi, I think we've decided to wait until after 0.91 comes out, to publish it on the live site.  This is one, and the other will be in a separate message.

 

The old item "Bolding has no effect on some fonts" says:

 

Some fonts are available with in an unique, "normal" variant (i.e. no italics or bold). Nonetheless, Inkscape currently displays four styles available for them: Normal, Italics, Bold, Bold Italics. Italics is correctly faked by inclining the font but bolding cannot be faked at this point. Since the font itself does not have a Bold variant, the result would likely be of poor quality anyway. You should rather consider using a font with a real Bold variant.

 

When I re-wrote it, I wrote that italics can only be "faked" not "correctly faked" because in my experience, I have not been able to correctly fake an italicized font by skewing (which I assume is meant by "inclining").  (To me, italicized text doesn't just lean over, but sort of curves over.)

 

Can anyone speak to whether skewing is a correct italics or not?

 

Thank you very much!