Ok - that makes sense. One suggestion, if the call is getFont for BOLD | ITALIC, still do the BOLD part.
thanks - dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Thielen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "itext" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] FontFactory ITALIC not working > Quoting David Thielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi; > > > > I am creating a font as such: > > Font font = FontFactory.getFont( "Comic Sans MS", 12.0f, FONT.ITALIC ); > > BaseFont bf = font.getBaseFont(); > > > > If I do regular or BOLD - it works. But ITALIC or BOLD | ITALIC and it comes > > out regular. I know I have italic and bolditalic on my system because it > > shows up ok in Word. > > WORD uses another way to make Comic Sans Italic. > > If you look in your fonts directory, > you will find Arial, Arialbd, Ariali and Arialbi ttf's, > but you will only find a comic and comicbd ttf. > Because there is no comici and comicbi ttf, iText is > not able to make comic italic in an easy way. > > (You can only do it if you skew the characters yourself. > Is that the right verb, skew?) > > Bruno > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
