Any pointers please.... On Nov 3, 3:28 pm, android_explorer <[email protected]> wrote: > Just adding more information. > > If I use a bold font file it works. But If I use regular font file, > the font is not extrapolated to bold. Our platform has requirement > not use different font files for bold and regular fonts (space > limitations). > > Can someone suggest where to start looking at ? Is it in Skia > library ? If so any pointers ? > > Thanks! > > On Nov 1, 4:39 pm, android_explorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We trying to use a regular font and use the font engine to extrapolate > > that to BOLD format. I just tried with free font DejaVuSans. > > > Typeface regFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), > > > > "fonts/ > > DejaVuSans.ttf"); > > > Typeface boldFace = Typeface.create(regFace, Typeface.BOLD); > > > Now when we set the type face to this boldFace in the paint object > > using setTypeface(boldFace); > > > When we draw the text, we are expecting bold fonts. What we see is > > regular fonts. Is this not the right usage ? > > > Please advise and thanks in advance.
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