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#839 Option for Bold Method

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nobody
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2009-10-09
2009-09-30
leo.brown
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Hi

Re: yesterday's release "Draw bold text the old fashioned way, much faster"

Yes, but it looks AWFUL. And I hadn't found any issues before. Any chance of a config option?
Ta
Leo

Discussion

  • James Bunton

    James Bunton - 2009-10-01

    You can always turn bold off in the config panel. The old bold was hardly noticeable anyway.

     
  • James Bunton

    James Bunton - 2009-10-01
    • status: open --> pending-wont-fix
     
  • leo.brown

    leo.brown - 2009-10-01

    Hi

    I don't think you understand what i'm referring to. The quote from your changeset, "draw bold text the old fashioned way" produces very poor aliased bold fonts when the terminal requests them.

    See issue 2865023 also raised this week.

    Leo

     
  • leo.brown

    leo.brown - 2009-10-01
    • status: pending-wont-fix --> open-duplicate
     
  • James Bunton

    James Bunton - 2009-10-01

    I do know what you're talking about.

    Try pressing CMD-I and unchecking the Bold option. If you like the result then press "Update" to save it. Previously this previously toggled NSStrokeWidth to bold the font. This was slow and produced a barely noticeable bold effect. It also forced text highlighting on. Now this does bold by drawing the text twice twice and offset 1px to the right. It does not force highlighting on.
    If you leave bold switched off then the behaviour should appear exactly the same as before.

     
  • James Bunton

    James Bunton - 2009-10-01
    • status: open-duplicate --> pending-wont-fix
     
  • James Bunton

    James Bunton - 2009-10-01

    I've added a FAQ to the website.

     
  • leo.brown

    leo.brown - 2009-10-09

    Thanks for confirming - much appreciated.

     
  • leo.brown

    leo.brown - 2009-10-09
    • status: pending-wont-fix --> open-wont-fix
     

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