Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

["Guillermo Espertino (Gez)" <gespertino gmail com>]

El 04/10/13 05:12, Jehan Pagès escribió:

> It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in
> 2.8.6 for Windows.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110


In my oppinion, that's not a bug, it's an improvement.:-)
Bold and Italics variants should be designed specifically and not simulated.
If the font family doesn't provide such variants, it's better to leave 
it as is and use only the available ones, for the sake of typographic 
quality.

This is an example to follow:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=822

Gez.