Comment 36 for bug 185700

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In , Adrian Johnson (ajohnson-redneon) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> I wonder whether maybe we should skip the FcRenderPrepare for print output, but
> that provides synthetic oblique through changing the font matrix. It also
> provides synthetic bold, but I'm not sure if that works for printing.

The current cairo git contains a fix to make synthetic bold fonts print correctly. If the FT embolden option is set cairo will use a fallback font. ie the outlines obtained from FT will be used instead of subsetting the font file.