stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms) (05/28/90)
It occured to me that there shouldn't be fixed styles. Each font should carry its own set of styles plus there should be some sort of code resource to style a font if that font doesn't directly support the wanted style. For example, if you wanted a Extra-Bold-Italic, but the font in use only had extra-bold, the Font Mgr would generate a nice extra-bold using the Font (I suppose I'm talking about TrueType or ATM) then run the image through a italicizer. The benefits of this scheme are vast... Instead of a standard set of radio buttons to list styles, each font would have a list of styles just like the size list works now. If a style is built into the font, the style would be outlined, otherwise it would be normal type. To elaberate, the toolbox traps might look like this: Equivolent size traps for styles, pascal void GetStyleName(short sNum, Str255 theName); pascal short GetStyleNum(Str255 theName); pascal Boolean RealStyle(short fontNum, short sNum); To replace TextFace, pascal void AddStyle(short sNum); pascal void RemoveStyle(short sNum); pascal void PlainStyle(); In addition, a new code resource would need to be specified to transform fonts, outlines or bitmaps. How about 'FTFM' (font transform)? There should also be calls to change style options (ie, how many degrees to rotate). Thats all I can think of so far. Hopefully, Apple is working on something like this already but if they aren't, they should be! Josh.
isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (05/29/90)
In article <5520@hub.ucsb.edu> stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu () writes: >It occured to me that there shouldn't be fixed styles. Each font should >carry its own set of styles plus there should be some sort of code >resource to style a font if that font doesn't directly support the wanted >style. For example, if you wanted a Extra-Bold-Italic, but the font in >use only had extra-bold, the Font Mgr would generate a nice extra-bold >using the Font (I suppose I'm talking about TrueType or ATM) then run >the image through a italicizer. Can't do what you're saying. The font could be slanted, but not italicized. For most fonts, serifed especially, the italic version is not simply applying a slant to the plain style -- each character is different. What you should be able to do though, is have the font manager list the available styles a la Adobe Type Reunion. -- Ken Hancock '90 | Now that I'm employed, Consultant | standard disclaimer applies. :-) Computer Resource Center |============================================== Dartmouth College | EMAIL: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu