synthetic italic glyphs

Thomas Phinney wrote:
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> Yes, these should be obliqued. There's definitely something wrong there!
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> Rather than set the ItalicAngle in the fontinfo file, you may need to set it in the input font. In our internal workflow, the fontinfo file also feeds the Type 1 font production; it's probably not the case that MakeOTF is reading that value from the fontinfo file, but rather that it's coming from the input font.
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> T


Hallo Thomas,

yes, now it works right - MakeOTF ignores the "ItalicAngle" value form
font info file. It uses the definition direct from the font data file.
(/ItalicAngle 0 def)

Think such things should be availeble in the sdk documantation.

But now we have this fine forum... :-)


Andreas Seidel

Thomas Phinney wrote:
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> Many of the synthetic glyphs are math characters, which we thought should not be slanted, even in an italic font.
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> For glyphs that do get slanted, they should get slanted an amount equal to the italic angle of the font.
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> Most likely, you're either looking at one of the glyphs that doesn't get slanted, or you don't have the italic angle set correctly in the input font.
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> T

Hello Thomas,

think euro, dagger, daggerdbl and paragraph should be italic - and it
don`t work for me even if I set "ItalicAngle 8" and "IsItalicStyle true"
in the font info file.


Andreas Seidel