Comment 33 for bug 344814

I am changing the bug title to "Synthetic emboldening/italic/italic-bold fails for single-styled fonts" as it appeared to be more serious than failed to print bold text in Firefox. As pointed out by several people in the mozilla-bugs #532855, this seems to be linked to a deficiency somewhere in the font rendering pipeline (can be freetype, fontconfig, pango ...). It does not only effect Chinese font bold faces, but also any fonts without bold/italic/italic bold faces. Because this bug is located in the rendering pipeline, I am not surprised to see that many graphics software are effected, including Scribus (1.3.3.13 or later), GIMP, Inkscape etc. In these software, if a font does not have dedicated bold/italic/italic bold faces, you may either not be able to select this style (Scribus, GIMP), or when you select it, it won't work (Inkscape).

I would like to suggest giving a higher priority to this bug.