New on CTAN: xfakebold
Date: July 24, 2018 10:23:04 PM CEST
Herbert Voß submitted the
xfakebold
package.
Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Fake a regular font for bold characters
Announcement text:
Package xfakebold uses the the text render from PDF to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters. It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by its outline. The package works in text and math mode and for pdflatex and lualatex.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xfakebold More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xfakebold We are supported by the TeX User Groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau
Package xfakebold uses the the text render from PDF to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters. It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by its outline. The package works in text and math mode and for pdflatex and lualatex.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xfakebold More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xfakebold We are supported by the TeX User Groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau
xfakebold – Fake a regular font for bold characters
This package uses PDF’s text rendering to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters. It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by their outline.
The package works both in text and in math mode, for pdfLaTeX as well as for LuaLaTeX.
The package depends on iftex, xkeyval, and pdfrender.
| Package | xfakebold |
| Version | 0.10 2023-11-21 |
| Copyright | 2019–2023 Herbert Voß |
| Maintainer | Herbert Voß |