rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (11/16/90)
patrick@thomas.com (Patrick O'Shaughnessy) writes: > Some time ago I posted a question about how to make a bold font bolder. > The two methods most commonly suggested were to print the font some number > of times sighltly offset or actually design a new font. [explanation, PostScript code deleted] Problem with that, as Patrick is aware, is that it fattens more in one direction than another. You can work in multiple directions--but that's still rough, and somewhat painful. Here's another way to go at it. The trick is the ability to "outline" the glyphs with charpath, and the fact that stroking that path will center the line on the boundary of the character. Thus, stroking a charpath will extend the boundary outward by 1/2 linewidth. This uniformly "fattens" outward from the strokes. If you overdo it, it's going to be ugly, but that's true of any artificial emboldening. An example "show bolder" proc is: % Bshow - show artificially emboldened string in current font /Bshow { % string Bshow - currentlinewidth exch % protect environment currentpoint 2 index show % normal display moveto % back to start point 1 setlinewidth % (for sake of illustration) false charpath stroke setlinewidth % restore } def The "1 setlinewidth" is just for the sake of a simple illustration; the actual linewidth needs to be tied to the font size and degree of embold- ening desired. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 Cellular phones: more deadly than marijuana.