[PySide] Support for 5.2

[Srini Kommoori]

Sean,

Thanks for reaching out. I am also in the process of building QFontDatabase
manually.

Yes. It would great if you could share your code snippet on how you are
handling this.

thanks,
-Srini


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sean Fisk <sean at seanfisk.com> wrote:

> We are having an issue where embedded fonts (i.e., from a QRC file) are
> not loading properly on OS X Mavericks. Srini, I can’t tell for certain
> based on your description, but it might be the issue you are having too.
>
> We are using py2app <http://pythonhosted.org/py2app/> to distribute our
> application. Although this is not a solution to the bug, we were able to
> work around the issue by including the fonts as data files with py2app.
> This works because it loads the font from an “external” file instead of an
> embedded resource.
>
> If that is an option for you and you would like to adapt our code, I would
> be happy to provide it.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --
> Sean Fisk
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Srini Kommoori <vasure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks John. I got that from search. My issue is not really with Lucida
>> Grande support. I have custom font which is having issues. I have ton of
>> these messages on the console.
>>
>> 2014-02-05 08:05:36.498 Python[25536:1107] CoreText performance note:
>> Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Open Sans" and got font
>> with PostScript name "OpenSans". For best performance, only use PostScript
>> names when calling this API.
>>
>> Seems like https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32789 is
>> fixed. We need to merge the fix or wait for 4.8.6 to be released.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:10 AM, John Ehresman <jpe at wingware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/4/14, 10:38 PM, Srini Kommoori wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone working on porting to Qt5.2?
>>>>
>>>> I just updated my mac to Mavericks and fonts are all messed up. I see
>>>> that all of them are resolved in Qt5.2.
>>>>
>>>
>>> PySide only supports Qt4 right now.  The workaround for the Mavericks
>>> font problem (or at least a problem with the system font) is to use:
>>>
>>>       QFont.insertSubstitution(".Lucida Grande UI", "Lucida Grande")
>>>
>>> There's also another 4.8 release in the works.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
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