[Qt-interest] Font Selection Issue

[Jake Colman]

I've been reading on how to check my fontconfig configuration.  But
where is the Qt configuration for font substitution?  Are you referring
to something more than the QFont class?

>>>>> "CM" == Constantin Makshin <cmakshin at gmail.com> writes:

   CM> Check your fontconfig and Qt configurations for font
   CM> substitutions.

   CM> 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

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