[Interest] Use Book and Medium weight Gotham font from QML?
Elvis Stansvik
elvstone at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 17:20:18 CEST 2016
2016-04-05 16:24 GMT+02:00 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
> On Tuesday 05 April 2016, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>> 2016-04-05 15:12 GMT+02:00 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
>> > On Monday 04 April 2016, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm targeting Qt 5.4.1 and it seems there's no Font.Medium enumeration
>> >>
>> >> value there? I get:
>> >> Unable to assign [undefined] to int
>> >>
>> >> The font we're using for this app is our company font, which is Gotham
>> >> from Hoefler & Co. The weights we need in the UI are Book and Medium,
>> >> each defined in its own .otf (but under the same family name
>> >> "Gotham"), as shown by the fc-scan output below:
>> >>
>> >> estan at newton:~$ fc-scan Gotham-Book.otf
>> >> Pattern has 22 elts (size 32)
>> >>
>> >> family: "Gotham"(s) "Gotham Book"(s)
>> >> familylang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
>> >> style: "Book"(s) "Regular"(s)
>> >> stylelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
>> >> fullname: "Gotham-Book"(s)
>> >> fullnamelang: "en"(s)
>> >> slant: 0(i)(s)
>> >> weight: 50(i)(s)
>> >> width: 100(i)(s)
>> >> foundry: "unknown"(s)
>> >> file: "Gotham-Book.otf"(s)
>> >> index: 0(i)(s)
>> >> outline: True(s)
>> >> scalable: True(s)
>> >> charset:
>> >> 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffdfcfaf
>> >>
>> >> ffffffff ffffffff
>> >>
>> >> 0001: cffffcff fec3fccf cffff1ff 7ffffc3f 00040000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 fc000000
>> >>
>> >> 0002: 03000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 3f0000c0 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0003: 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 000e: 00000000 80000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 001e: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000003f 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 000c0000
>> >>
>> >> 0020: 771806bc 06010047 00000010 03f10000 000003ff 00021742
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0021: 00800000 00000005 7ff80000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00fb: 0000001f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >> (s)
>> >>
>> >> lang:
>> >> aa|ay|bi|br|bs|ca|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|en|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl
>> >> |g
>> >> v|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|la|lb|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|ns
>> >> o|ny
>> >>
>> >> |oc|om|pl|pt|rm|sk|sl|sma|smj|so|sq|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|uz|vo|vot
>> >> ||wa
>> >> |wen|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|li|ms|ng|pap-an|pa
>> >> |p-aw rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za(s) fontversion: 144179(i)(s)
>> >> |
>> >> capability: "otlayout: otlayout:latn"(s)
>> >> fontformat: "CFF"(s)
>> >> decorative: False(s)
>> >>
>> >> hash:
>> >> "sha256:3083f405cb35b16e06d0108836dd6552630c85c7fc5412a5de724e57e6fd7348
>> >> "( s) postscriptname: "Gotham-Book"(s)
>> >>
>> >> estan at newton:~$ fc-scan Gotham-Medium.otf
>> >> Pattern has 22 elts (size 32)
>> >>
>> >> family: "Gotham"(s) "Gotham Medium"(s)
>> >> familylang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
>> >> style: "Medium"(s) "Regular"(s)
>> >> stylelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
>> >> fullname: "Gotham-Medium"(s)
>> >> fullnamelang: "en"(s)
>> >> slant: 0(i)(s)
>> >> weight: 80(i)(s)
>> >> width: 100(i)(s)
>> >> foundry: "unknown"(s)
>> >> file: "Gotham-Medium.otf"(s)
>> >> index: 0(i)(s)
>> >> outline: True(s)
>> >> scalable: True(s)
>> >> charset:
>> >> 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffdfcfaf
>> >>
>> >> ffffffff ffffffff
>> >>
>> >> 0001: cffffcff fec3fccf cffff1ff 7ffffc3f 00040000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 fc000000
>> >>
>> >> 0002: 03000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 3f0000c0 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0003: 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 000e: 00000000 80000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 001e: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000003f 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 000c0000
>> >>
>> >> 0020: 771806bc 06010047 00000010 03f10000 000003ff 00021742
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0021: 00800000 00000005 7ff80000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00fb: 0000001f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> >>
>> >> 00000000 00000000
>> >> (s)
>> >>
>> >> lang:
>> >> aa|ay|bi|br|bs|ca|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|en|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl
>> >> |g
>> >> v|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|la|lb|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|ns
>> >> o|ny
>> >>
>> >> |oc|om|pl|pt|rm|sk|sl|sma|smj|so|sq|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|uz|vo|vot
>> >> ||wa
>> >> |wen|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|li|ms|ng|pap-an|pa
>> >> |p-aw rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za(s) fontversion: 144179(i)(s)
>> >> |
>> >> capability: "otlayout: otlayout:latn"(s)
>> >> fontformat: "CFF"(s)
>> >> decorative: False(s)
>> >>
>> >> hash:
>> >> "sha256:bc397773a547218b8c334f9a40ea8e58f55198fab6095b103e598634fe273450
>> >> "( s) postscriptname: "Gotham-Medium"(s)
>> >>
>> >> estan at newton:~/orexplore/doc/GrafiskProfil/Typsnitt/Gotham$
>> >>
>> >> And I'm loading these as follows:
>> >>
>> >> Style {
>> >>
>> >> readonly property string mediumFontFamily: __gothamMediumLoader.name
>> >> readonly property string regularFontFamily: __gothamBookLoader.name
>> >>
>> >> property FontLoader __gothamBookLoader: FontLoader {
>> >>
>> >> source: "fonts/Gotham-Book.otf"
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> property FontLoader __gothamMediumLoader: FontLoader {
>> >>
>> >> source: "fonts/Gotham-Medium.otf"
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> and trying to use them with:
>> >>
>> >> Text {
>> >>
>> >> text: "Foo"
>> >> font.family: Style.regularFontFamily
>> >> font.weight: Font.Normal
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> Text {
>> >>
>> >> text: "Foo"
>> >> font.family: Style.mediumFontFamily
>> >> font.weight: Font.Medium
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >
>> > Have you tried:
>> > font.styleName: "Medium"
>> >
>> > styleName is the most direct way to select a specific style of a font
>> > without having to go through matching of style property which may be
>> > wrongly encoded in the font .
>>
>> Ah yes, that will probably work. That's what I meant with:
>>
>> "It seems there's some fixes in 5.6 which will let me use
>> Font.styleName to match a font by style name, which would be a
>> workaround [1]. But right now I'm stuck with 5.4.1."
>>
>> Completely understandable if you missed that, sorry for sending such a
>> tirade of e-mails!
>>
> Ah, sorry. Yes it is pretty difficult with Qt 5.4, it also doesn't understand
> the Medium font weight (I think that got added in 5.5). Probably renaming the
> fonts is the best solution if you can't upgrade Qt.
Yep, it's what I'll do until we can upgrade (when it's in Ubuntu).
Elvis
>
> Best Regards
> `Allan
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