[Qt-interest] Font Selection Issue

[Constantin Makshin]

Check your fontconfig and Qt configurations for font substitutions.

On Thursday 07 October 2010 17:58:40 Jake Colman wrote:
> 
> 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