[Qt-interest] Font Selection Issue

[Constantin Makshin]

Look in the "qtconfig" ("qtconfig-qt4", "qt4-qtconfig", etc., I don't know how it's named in Solaris) utility.

If it's not available, you may try to compile it yourself — it's in the "tools/qtconfig" subdirectory of the Qt source code tarball.

Another possible cause of the problem is that Qt or fontconfig can't find the font you requested and takes default font instead.

On Friday 08 October 2010 17:15:26 Jake Colman wrote:
> 
> 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