New on CTAN: xfakebold

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Tue Jul 24 23:23:04 CEST 2018


Herbert Voß submitted the

                xfakebold

package.

Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Fake a regular font for bold characters

Announcement text:
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Package xfakebold uses the the text render from PDF to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters.
It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by its outline. The package works in text and math mode and
for pdflatex and lualatex.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xfakebold

More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xfakebold

We are supported by the TeX User Groups.
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Ina Dau




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