10-19-2018, 03:35 PM
(10-18-2018, 10:09 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:Hmmm, it is unfortunate that the fonts don't use a transform to allow mathematical manipulation of the fonts, making a weight slider possible (though, it might be possible to interpolate between them, and maybe extrapolate beyond them, but that is beyond what I am asking). As I said above, if it cannot be calculated using some transform, then GIMP could at least give the appropriate weight information to to OS to render the font with the specific attributes, even if it doesn't do all the points in between.(10-18-2018, 04:45 PM)adrianh Wrote: Even if a font has several variants and GIMP is arbitrarily selecting one of them, the font would be selected based on specific attributes, where weight is one of them.
Also many fonts (TrueType or OpenType, which are vector....) come with more weights than just plain and bold. If these could all be computed from the plain version, would not it be simpler to have a single font and a "weight" slider?