bochner@speed.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner) (04/13/90)
A couple of suggestions for faking a Bold Symbol font have gone by recently, and no one has suggested the technique that seems most obvious to me (unless I missed it :-). The easiest thing is just to stretch the font horizontally: the following code gives you a symbol font that's 30% wider than normal symbol. /bold /Symbol findfont 1.3 1 matrix scale makefont def /bold12 bold 12 scalefont def The 1.3 is arbitrary, of course: You can choose whatever factor you like. I found 1.2 to be too little, but 1.3 looks pretty good to me. I haven't tried the other approaches that have been suggested, so I can't compare results, but this approach is easy, clean, and resolution independent, so it seems worth suggesting for those who might be satisfied with the results. Harry Bochner bochner@endor.harvard.edu