Are there css engines that cannot synthesize oblique fonts?

• From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:39:13 +0900
• To: public-cssprint@w3.org
• Message-Id: <134C55C5-1674-4FE7-9027-E170CCD137D3@rivoal.net>

Hi,

The css-fonts-4 spec (and predecessors) assumes that synthesizing oblique font faces when lacking a real oblique (or italic) font is something that some but not all engines do. There is a control to turn it off when the author so desires (font-synthesis-style: none), but even if that has not been applied, the rest of the font selection logic assumes that there might be engines that don't support synthesis.

This is not the case for browsers. They all do support synthesis of oblique faces. How about css print engines? Is there any that lack the ability to synthesize oblique fonts?

—Florian

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2023 07:39:37 UTC