your client must be very aesthetically oriented to have had a custom font created; they would more likely be happier having a compressed cut made, as well: algebraic adjustment is just distortion. however, if you would like to control compression/expansion algebraically, you may wish to investigate vertical scaling of CGContext’s text matrix (CGContextSetTextMatrix).
regards, edward On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:04 AM, Hado Hein <macli...@batchmaker.de> wrote: > Hoi. > I have a project with a custom font of my customer. Whyever the client wants > theirs font in some typos (strings/labels/buttons on screen) to be compressed > by 20%. > > Compressing in this case means that the glyph/character (Latin1) should be > 20% smaller in width than it is in the font. > > I digged into the docs and found attributes for kerning and so on - but not > for compressing the font. Are there any attributes to achieve this or do I > need to compress an image of the text to get the desired result? > > > thx, Hado > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/etaffel%40me.com > > This email sent to etaf...@me.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
