[Qt-interest] Font size changes for each OS

[Dan White]

Or maybe you can open up the ui file with QtDesigner and remove all the fixed font specifications ?

Thinking further on that, they are just XML files, so you might be able to edit the XML directly.

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----- william crocker <william.crocker at analog.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Silas Silva wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > A badly designed application has fixed-sized widgets and fonts set on Qt
> > Designer.  In a machine (with Fedora 9), fonts fit ok, in others (with
> > Fedora 12 or Ubuntu) they get bigger.  What could be the cause of this
> > problem?  75dpi vs. 100dpi fonts?
> >
> 
> 
> Rewrite the application and create the widgets in code.
> This will only take a few minutes as that is how much time
> was originally saved by using Qt Designer in the first place.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> > I'm not going to discuss about the right and wrong ways of designing Qt
> > apps.  This applications is badly designed, yeah, but I inherited this
> > maintenance task.
> > 
> > So, I found several links on this list with several solutions:
> > 
> > - Set the application font: this works for the font family but doesn't
> >   work for the font size, because they are non-default set in designer.
> > 
> > - Set fonts size with QFont's setPixelSize(): not practical, since there
> >   are hundreds of widgets in UI files with hard-coded font sizes.
> > 
> > - Set the font path correctly, so it would pick 75dpi or 100dpi fonts:
> >   that is great and I got this idea reading this thread:
> > 
> >   http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/1999-01/thread00076-0.html
> > 
> >   But it doesn't seem to work, even though I just let one path in the
> >   font path.  Is there anything I'm missing?
> > 
> > Any clue?  Any tips about how Qt font configuration works with X font
> > configuration?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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