Regular and bold font (2 files?)

[Tenry]

I am wondering why I have for most of my default fonts more than 1 file (for example "arial.ttf" and "arialbd.ttf"). I can see that the first one includes the default one and the second the bold one... but how does it work with SFML's setStyle() function? I mean, when loading a font, I specify only one file (propably arial.ttf), how can this become bold? It will propably don't look for a different file than, so does it a kind of to-bold conversion itself? What would happen, if I choose "arialbd.ttf" as the file and the regular style?

[eXpl0it3r]

SFML/freetype simply stretches the font as far as I know, thus it's more or less simulating boldness. If you want the true boldness of the given font, you'll have to load both fonts and switch in between.
For example in Photoshop you'll only get bold/italic if there's another font file, otherwise you'll have to switch to the text settings and add "artificial" boldness.

[Tenry]

SFML/freetype simply stretches the font as far as I know, thus it's more or less simulating boldness. If you want the true boldness of the given font, you'll have to load both fonts and switch in between.
For example in Photoshop you'll only get bold/italic if there's another font file, otherwise you'll have to switch to the text settings and add "artificial" boldness.

Ah, okay. Thank you very much for clarification!