clarification for new user faq re faking italics
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!
On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 21:35 -0700, Brynn wrote:
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.
In Inkscape 0.91 the GUI no longer shows synthesized font faces so designers will not accidentally use one. Web browsers will normally create a synthesized font.
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?
An 'oblique' face is essentially a skewed version of the 'normal' font. An 'italic' font usually has some glyphs that are completely different in shape (more hand-writing like). In any case, 'skewing' is a better description than 'inclining'.
I would use 'synthesized' rather than 'faked'.
The CSS3 Font specification has a nice discussion of various font-face issues:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/
Tav
Hi Brynn,
I think you got me wrong on this one: The old FAQ just says 'Some fonts can't be bolded', not as your new one 'Some fonts can't be bolded or italicized'. I meant that Inkscape *does* just italicize them if you press the button, and if it has to fake that, because the variant does not exist, it does just fake it (don't know if this still applies to 0.91, though). I didn't refer to 'correctly' or not, just to the faking part ;-)
Maren
Am 28.11.2014 um 05:35 schrieb Brynn:
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!
28 нояб. 2014 г. 14:31 пользователь "Maren Hachmann" < maren@...3165...> написал:
Hi Brynn,
I think you got me wrong on this one: The old FAQ just says 'Some fonts can't be bolded', not as your new one 'Some fonts can't be bolded or italicized'. I meant that Inkscape *does* just italicize them if you press the button, and if it has to fake that, because the variant does not exist, it does just fake it (don't know if this still applies to 0.91, though).
It doesn't.
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=822
Alex
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