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[Bug 344814]

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From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:21:56 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 344814 <344814@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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PS and PDF do not support synthetic fonts. To get synthetic bold when
printing we need to embed the synthetic font outlines. GDI does provide
the synthetic outlines (via GetGlyphOutline). I have not done any
testing to check if FreeType provides the synthetic outlines (via
FT_Outline_Decompose).

If FreeType does provide the outlines then it is just a case of forcing
the fallback path in cairo when the font is synthetic. With FreeType
fonts this is easy as we can check for the CAIRO_FT_OPTIONS_EMBOLDEN
flag. On GDI this is harder as I don't know of any way to test if GDI is
synthesising a font.

See also:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21543

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Synthetic emboldening/italic/italic-bold fails for single-styled fonts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344814
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