[reportlab-users] font weights

[Andy Robinson]

Jerome Alet wrote:

> If you know the exact position of this word, and can "print" it

> independantly from the rest, you could slightly increment

> the canvas' scale before printing this word, something like

> (untested) :


You could also try printing once; then shift right by
a tiny fraction (say 0.5 points) and reprint; then maybe up 0.25 and 
back 0.25, and print again.  That would thicken up all the lines.  You 
want to shift it by a small percentage of a typical stroke width in
one of the characters - vertically and horizontally. It's a bit like
an old typewriter or dot matrix printer going back and doing it again.


Another effect which is much neater is to do most of your text in,
say, 80% gray; and the bold words in black.

- Andy