Re: How do I get Lucida Grande italic into my application?
Re: How do I get Lucida Grande italic into my application?
- Subject: Re: How do I get Lucida Grande italic into my application?
- From: "Dan Bernstein" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:05:28 +0200
OmniWeb is based on a more recent version of WebKit than the one that
ships in Tiger. If you try your example in a WebKit nightly build
<http://nightly.webkit.org/> you will see that it renders the same as
in OmniWeb. The way it's done is by applying a skew to the text
matrix:
<http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/browser/trunk/WebCore/platform/mac/FontMac.mm#L583>
On 1/6/07, Tommy Nordgren <email@hidden> wrote:
On 5 jan 2007, at 22.02, Diop Mercer wrote:
> There is no italic variant of the Lucida Grande font on the system, as
> most of you probably have noticed. If you use Lucida Grande as your
> standard font in Safari, it substitutes italic Helvetica when needed.
> Firefox substitutes an ugly, blocky approximation of an italic Lucida
> Grande. And OmniWeb gives us a nice, antialiased italic Lucida Grande
> that looks as good as a real system font probably would.
>
> How is this done in code?
>
> Thanks.
> -m
> _______________________________________________
You might try checking out the website for omniweb. The company have
published
a lot of their libraries.
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