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Old 11-25-2021, 12:50 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
If the font variant (or combination) does not exist, some renderers generate a "fake" font.

(snippage for brevity)

Long story short:

Some programs look for an exact matching/existing font, and if it doesn't exist, will fallback to Regular (or closest thing). (Like ADE not supporting or displaying font-variant: small-caps.)

Other programs like Word/LibreOffice will generate artificial combinations if the font doesn't exist. (Like small-caps -> shrunken ALL CAPS... or if you choose some odd combination like: bold+italic+smallcaps font, it may take the bold+italic font which does exist, convert to ALL CAPS, then shrink.)
And let me say, for commercial eBookmakers, those damned faux fonts, created by typographers, are no fun either. I just went through this, with SKEWED faces in a goddamned book. Of course, we didn't realize that the bloody thing had faux skewed faces (for, of course, SANS SERIF faces, insert loud expletive deleteds here...) and the customer refused to lose the "precious" sans serif face he had. I explained that we had no ability faux-italicize.

We ended up (I ENDED UP, that is) spending two hours, finding a nearly-identical sans-serif font that, lo, had an italic face (n.b.: you'd be shocked to know how many don't have one) that we could substitute.

I really wish there was some magic button I could push so that I'd have some way of knowing that an italic or bold face was being fake-created by a typographer/designer.

GRUMBLE.

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