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Implement better algorithm for bold fakestyle #571

Open nschulux opened 1 month ago

nschulux commented 1 month ago

Original font has name NVTFranklin semibold. Bold+Italic not working . image

jirkakunze commented 1 month ago

The problem is that only the regular style for NYTFranklin is available. The recalculation of the bold style is not yet well solved in the TTF driver. Perhaps the Libre-Franklin font is a better alternative for original Sather Gothic font. I have not checked whether Libre-Franklin also contains bytecode.

Libre-Franklin is licensed under OFL.

https://www.1001freefonts.com/de/libre-franklin.font

nschulux commented 6 days ago

I can add Bold and Bold Italic. NYTFranklin

nschulux commented 1 day ago

TTF-NYTFranklin.zip Zum Testen.

jirkakunze commented 3 hours ago

The FontSquirrel web font generator seems to have received a major update. My tests of the generator have shown that PS printing of the Nimbus fonts from artiflex/urw-base-35 works well, but after editing with the generator the horizontal position of some glyphs is no longer correct. Kerning information is also handled incorrectly by the webfont generator. The kerning table in the font is always deleted. If the checkbox 'remove kerning' is not set, the kerning information is stored in the GPOS table. However, this is not processed by the driver.

Maybe it is a good idea to take the TTF fonts unchanged from the gitrepo of artiflexSoftware. These have more characters than we need under GEOS, but the driver can cope with them. However, there are several repositories which contain the urw base 35 fonts. I can't say what the difference is.