[NTG-pdftex] Can PdfTeX vary font weight ?

[Hans Hagen]

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Typesetting the 2008 Christmas Letter (in Computer Modern
> Roman 10pt scaled \magstep 1}, I was dismayed to find
> that both on-screen and on paper the font is depressingly
> light; on a bran(d) new HP CP1215 colour laserprinter,
> the top of the lower-case "s" definitely breaks up.
> I assume that  this arises from the Bluesky type-1
> outlines that PdfTeX presumably uses, but I wondered if
> there is any way for PdfTeX to artificially increase
> the weight (well, really the stroke width, but I know
> that's asking too much !).

% low level hack because PT does not use context and therefore
% cannot use the high level interface:

\pdfliteral{2 w 1 Tc 2 Tr}philled\pdfliteral{1 w 0 Tc 0 Tr}


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