FakeBold Font patches for QT 4.3.x 0.1

cjacker huang jzhuang at redflag-linux.com
Fri Aug 10 09:59:23 CEST 2007


Name: FakeBold Font patches for QT 4.3.x
Version: 0.1
Type: KDE Improvement
Depend: 
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=64029

Description:
 these patches fake a bold font style and output
for some fonts without bold support.

It is specially and very useful for CJK fonts.
actually it works with all fonts without bold
style.

Here I use FT_Glyph_Embolden to get a bold glyph.

These patches is not related to font rendering
result, if you want to control font rendering
result, please control fontconfig configurations.

Screenshot1: shows bold/bolditalic support with
"SOng" and "Hei" Chinese font.

Screenshot1: shows bold/italic support for
Chinese,Korean,Yi,Tibetan with Sans
fontset(Song,SIL Yi, Tibetan machine uni fonts)


Changelog:
 initial, test with qt-4.3.1


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