Re: NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic
On 24 Mar 09, at 05:20, Eric Gorr wrote: Well, actually, considering that using NSObliquenessAttributeName caused the text to look blury, I switched to userFontOfSize which provides a font with a clean italic version. If anyone has a better solution, I would be interested. I filed bug report rdar://6715356 requesting that labelFontOfSize return a font with a clean italic and bold-italic variant and suggest others do the same if they want this as well. To clarify a bit, the issue here is simply that the system font (Lucida Grande) doesn't have an italic variant, whereas the user font (Helvetica) does. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic
On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Andrew Farmer wrote: On 24 Mar 09, at 05:20, Eric Gorr wrote: Well, actually, considering that using NSObliquenessAttributeName caused the text to look blury, I switched to userFontOfSize which provides a font with a clean italic version. If anyone has a better solution, I would be interested. I filed bug report rdar://6715356 requesting that labelFontOfSize return a font with a clean italic and bold-italic variant and suggest others do the same if they want this as well. To clarify a bit, the issue here is simply that the system font (Lucida Grande) doesn't have an italic variant, whereas the user font (Helvetica) does. Yes. Well, that labelFontOfSize does not return a font with an italic variant. I assume it is possible that systemFontOfSize may return a different font then labelFontOfSize in the future. I wanted to draw a label in italic and, while I could get close by using NSObliquenessAttributeName, NSObliquenessAttributeName made the text look blury. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic
On Mar 23, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: I found this old thread: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2007/Jan/msg00181.html which discusses the same problem I am experiencing. I need an italic version of Lucida Grande, which is the font currently returned by labelFontOfSize. But, of course, I need a generic solution since labelFontOfSize may not always return Lucida Grande. Now, I could select a font like Helvetica Neue which has all of the various traits I need, but I would rather use the font returned by labelFontOfSize since I am drawing a label. The solution proposed in the thread was to just add NSObliquenessAttributeName, which is easy enough, but I am not sure what the appropriate angle should be. Is there a standard angle which should be used in this situation? Well, actually, considering that using NSObliquenessAttributeName caused the text to look blury, I switched to userFontOfSize which provides a font with a clean italic version. If anyone has a better solution, I would be interested. I filed bug report rdar://6715356 requesting that labelFontOfSize return a font with a clean italic and bold-italic variant and suggest others do the same if they want this as well. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic
I found this old thread: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2007/Jan/msg00181.html which discusses the same problem I am experiencing. I need an italic version of Lucida Grande, which is the font currently returned by labelFontOfSize. But, of course, I need a generic solution since labelFontOfSize may not always return Lucida Grande. Now, I could select a font like Helvetica Neue which has all of the various traits I need, but I would rather use the font returned by labelFontOfSize since I am drawing a label. The solution proposed in the thread was to just add NSObliquenessAttributeName, which is easy enough, but I am not sure what the appropriate angle should be. Is there a standard angle which should be used in this situation? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic
From: Eric Gorr mail...@ericgorr.net Subject: NSObliquenessAttributeName, labelFontOfSize, Italic The solution proposed in the thread was to just add NSObliquenessAttributeName, which is easy enough, but I am not sure what the appropriate angle should be. Is there a standard angle which should be used in this situation? I found through trial and error that 0.15 produces the most acceptable simulation of italic. Of course, since this is an aesthetic decision, others might disagree. (Apple should include an italic version of the font if it is the default for NSTableView (it is, right?). It took me a lot of head scratching to figure out why binding a boolean to the Italic property of various cells was producing no effect whatsoever, when binding to Bold worked fine!). ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
