[Qt-interest] Font Selection Issue

[Jake Colman]

Using Qt4 on Solaris 10 I'm having trouble selecting the correct font
when using Qt built with support for fontconfig.

In order to ensure that I am being very specific in my request (for the
purpose of this test), I created a font and then used QFontInfo to see
what I got.

The font is created as follows:

  QFont Font;
  Font.setRawName("-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1");

When built without fontconfig support, QFontInfo gives me the following (which is what I'd expect):

Font Info: 
   Family: Helvetica [Adobe]
   Point Size: 9
   Pixel Size: 12
   Exact Match: 1

When built with fontconfig, however, I am getting the following:

Font Info: 
Family: Bitstream Vera Sans
Point Size: 9
Pixel Size: 12
Exact Match: 0

Why is Qt with fontconfig not giving me the correct font?

...Jake


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