[Qt-interest] Mac 10.5.6 Qt3 messed up X11 fonts

[Murphy, Sean M.]

The only font related idea I have is are you explicitly setting the font
in your application?  If so, try setting to a different one, or a
different size.  If you aren't explicitly setting the font, maybe try to
and see if that helps?  Also you say you cleared the system and User
fonts, but I *think* (not 100% positive) X11 uses the fonts located in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts, I don't think (again, not 100% positive) X11
uses the same fonts as "normal" Mac applications, so did you check the
fonts located in that location?

Unfortunately I probably didn't solve your problem, but is there a good
reason you are using the X11 version on the Mac?

If you're app is just a pure C++/Qt application, you can just dump the
X11 version and use the Mac native version.  If you want to go down that
route, you *can* get Qt 3.3.8 to compile on Leopard using the hints
posted here: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13208 specifically the link
to  here
http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main
/finkinfo/graphics/qt3mac.patch2 

I'd definitely recommend getting off X11 on the Mac side if at all
possible.  Also, I should probably toss in the obligatory "and move to
Qt4 too if you can" comment!
 
Sean

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[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Mann
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:29 AM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: [Qt-interest] Mac 10.5.6 Qt3 messed up X11 fonts

We have been porting our in house software for the Mac for years. It was
until recently, after the update to 10.5.6, that the Qt3 fonts on
Apple's
X11 server stopped working. All the X11 fonts in our Qt app are squiggly
lines. I am attaching a screenshot of a pop up window.

http://mann.uthscsa.edu/images/screenshot.tiff

I have cleared the system and User font caches, restarted the ATS
server,
rebuilt the X11 font cache and the problem is still there.

If I run our app on a test 10.4 system, the fonts display as they
should.

Any ideas?

-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-2672

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