02-23-2024, 03:55 PM
(02-23-2024, 02:11 PM)kar0606 Wrote: I've been working on a comic and for the text I would sometimes bold key words in the dialogue but now the bold feature just isn't working. I've been using the same font since I started and it used to bold but now it doesn't so I think it was an update that messed something up for it. I'm on gimp 2.10.36 and I tried going back to 2.10.0 but that still didn't fix it so I think I'd need to try 2.9 or something even older so if anyone knows where I can download that I'd appreciate that. Also if there's any way for me to fix it in this specific version I'd like to know that too. I read something about faux-bold which doesn't require the font to have a bold version but I don't know if that's a feature but if it is I'd like to know where to enable it. Thanks.
You are probably only missing the file for the bold version of the font (btw, what font is this?). As far as I now there has never been a "bold" option in Gimp (I just checked that there is none in my old 2.8 version), besides picking the bold version of the font (that may be called something else, such as "Heavy"...).
And there is no build-in faux-bold, at best you grow the character outlines by a few pixels, but you have to first add spacing to the characters and maybe even compensate for the baseline misalignment.