[PySide] conforming fonts between platforms

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

thanks Sean,

I will give it a go (I'm on Ubunto as well at home)

On 11/11/13 20:48, Sean Fisk wrote:
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> I struggled with this a while ago 
> <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/pyside/2013-April/001252.html> 
> and have it working on Windows and Mac OS X. Still having some 
> problems on GNU/Linux (specifically targeting Ubuntu) but my team is 
> working on it. We first compile some TTF files into our resources, 
> then import them in our program, then call this:
>
> |# fonts.py
>
> from  PySideimport  QtCore, QtGui
>
> def  init():
>      """Initialize embedded fonts."""
>      font_dir_resource = QtCore.QResource(':/fonts')
>      font_resource_path = font_dir_resource.absoluteFilePath()
>      for  ttf_filenamein  font_dir_resource.children():
>          # DON'T use `os.path.join()' here because Qt always uses UNIX-style
>          # paths. On Windows `os.sep' is '\\'.
>          res_file = QtCore.QFile('/'.join([font_resource_path, ttf_filename]))
>          # Must re-open the file in read-only mode to read the contents
>          # correctly.
>          res_file.open(QtCore.QIODevice.ReadOnly)
>          byte_array = res_file.readAll()
>          QtGui.QFontDatabase.addApplicationFontFromData(byte_array)|
>
> And to use it (snippet):
>
> |class  LoginView(QtGui.QDialog):
>      def  __init__(self, parent=None):
>          super(LoginView, self).__init__(parent)
>
>          # ...
>          self.title_font = QtGui.QFont('YourFontName',46)
>          self.title_font.setStyleStrategy(QtGui.QFont.PreferAntialias)
>          self.title_label = QtGui.QLabel('Your text in your font')
>          self.title_label.setFont(self.title_font)|
>
> Hope this helps. And if you get it working on GNU/Linux, let me know 
> what you did!
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sean Fisk
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <frank at ohufx.com 
> <mailto:frank at ohufx.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I am facing the challenge I'm sure many of you have had to deal
>     with before:
>
>     I need to make sure that the font used in my application looks as
>     similar as posisble between windows, linux and osx.
>
>     I am currently using 12 point Helvetica, which turns into a 16 pixel
>     high Sans Nimbus L on my linux box messing up my custom widget's
>     layouts.
>
>     What is the best practise here?
>     Supposedly it is possible to compile a font into a resource which
>     would
>     ensure almost identical results, right?! Has anybody ever done
>     this before?
>
>     Cheers,
>     frank
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