[XeTeX] Re: Re: Re: Re: Fontspec feature request?

[William F. Adams]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Suki Venkat, [TnQ] wrote:

>  Thanks Adam!
> Yes I can see how it distorts the thick-thin relation-ship but I am
> surprised by the reduction in blackness. I was thinking that only the
> curves outlining the font gets stretched; didn't know that the 
> blackness
> reduces -  I suppose \scalebox{#}[#]{\includegraphics{*}} that I used
> treats it like a raster image and not as vector. Is there any other way
> in LaTeX to scale a font vertically like a vector?

It is a vector, a vector _outline_, as opposed to a stroked path (which 
I believe is what you're thinking of).

An early version of Courier was done as a stroked (not outline) font, 
but this hasn't been carried forward (and later versions are filled 
outlines), and I don't believe there's a distinct option for it any 
longer.

Closest thing you could do here would be to use a Multiple Master font 
with a width and weight axes, substituting an appropriate version and 
increasing the size.

William

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