Difference between revisions of "Talk:Pseudo Small Caps"

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(synthesizing small caps is possible with true type -- did I miss the question? --pg)
(sorry, Patrick!)
 
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: do you mean synthesizing small caps? This is ok with current pdftex. Perhaps it depends on how you install the font, but afm2tfm for example does the synthesizing by referencing to another font 'at 0.8' (or whatever you choose). My tests worked ok here. --[[User:Patrick Gundlach|pg]]
 
: do you mean synthesizing small caps? This is ok with current pdftex. Perhaps it depends on how you install the font, but afm2tfm for example does the synthesizing by referencing to another font 'at 0.8' (or whatever you choose). My tests worked ok here. --[[User:Patrick Gundlach|pg]]
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: oops. my bad. I think I only tested the transformations with slantfont, not caps. --[[User:Adam|Adam]]

Latest revision as of 23:21, 16 July 2005

be applied to another Type1 or TTF font type.

... actually, does TTF apply in this case? Do the latest pdfTeX versions allow slanting/scaling/transforms using TrueType fonts? For the longest time, TTF fonts couldn't take advantage of this...

do you mean synthesizing small caps? This is ok with current pdftex. Perhaps it depends on how you install the font, but afm2tfm for example does the synthesizing by referencing to another font 'at 0.8' (or whatever you choose). My tests worked ok here. --pg
oops. my bad. I think I only tested the transformations with slantfont, not caps. --Adam