Herbert Voß submitted the

xfakebold

package.

Version number: 0.01 License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Fake a regular font for bold characters

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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

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For the CTAN Team Ina Dau