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text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK

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text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK Thomas W 04 Oct 23:10
  text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK Ofnuts 05 Oct 10:23
Thomas W
2013-10-04 23:10:09 UTC (over 10 years ago)

text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK

Just trying out the Text Tool UI, re: font simulation.

There's a bit of a usability problem in 2.8.4 -- if you type text, remove it, change the font-size & click in back in the box to type something else -- your size setting is always rejected & reverted to the default (18px).

Sigetch is exactly right -- these big fonts need the option of bold/italic simulation. Occasional circumstances and customers also prefer the "simulated" look.

I was going to suggest it should be possible to show a small italic "sim" or "simulated" indicator in the Font UI.. to indicate when a simulated font has been selected.

I also note that if you click around the place a few times, type text in different positions & delete it again.. as common when experimenting with layout.. it leaves a lot of empty text layers as 'garbage' in the layers box. There's no multi-select there to delete them.

Regards Tom

Ofnuts
2013-10-05 10:23:01 UTC (over 10 years ago)

text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK

On 10/05/2013 01:10 AM, Thomas W wrote:

Just trying out the Text Tool UI, re: font simulation.

There's a bit of a usability problem in 2.8.4 -- if you type text, remove it, change the font-size & click in back in the box to type something else -- your size setting is always rejected & reverted to the default (18px).

Sigetch is exactly right -- these big fonts need the option of bold/italic simulation. Occasional circumstances and customers also prefer the "simulated" look.

I was going to suggest it should be possible to show a small italic "sim" or "simulated" indicator in the Font UI.. to indicate when a simulated font has been selected.

Would it be worth it? The "plain" fonts usually have Bold/Italic versions. And the algorithmic "bolding" doesn't work that well on fancy fonts, while italics is just a shear transform away.