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Re: Mac Fonts: which can be made bold?

We do something similar in our program, but take a different approach. Here's the code for bold that we use:

Font f1 = Font.decode(fontName);
String fontName = f1.getFontName();
if (fontName.equals(f1.deriveFont(Font.BOLD).getFontName())) {
	boldCheckBox.setSelected(false);
	boldCheckBox.setEnabled(false);
} else {
	boldCheckBox.setEnabled(true);
}

A similar check is done for italics. This has been working for us for some time now. We basically check to see if the name of the derived bold font is the same as the plain one. If so, then there's no bold.

Steve


Our app has this same kind of functionality. We have a method called
getFontsForFamily() - we simply iterate over this list to see if any
of font (names) for a given family contain "Bold", which has worked
well.

For italic, we check for both "Italic" and "Oblique".

jeff



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