[Qt-interest] QFont oddities

[Constantin Makshin]

I don't know about the first problem, but the second one may be related to

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-370
http://lists.trolltech.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2009-September/012362.html

Lack of *any* activity in those threads lets me assume that for some reason Qt developers can't or don't want to fix that issue.

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 10:13:50 Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> We are trying to use QFont in our application, and we found a number of quirks.
> 
> - Apparently, QT Bug 736 is still there. See http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-736. It's been around since at least 4.3, and it means several fonts will simply not load. On MacOSX, for example, Optima, Times, Apple Chancery at least seem to cause some form of trouble or another. Any idea when this bug will be fixed or any guidance on how to determine whether a font will load or not?
> 
> - Listing font families on MacOSX only shows "Bold" or "Italic" variants. Apparently, there's no way to get things like "Light" or "Oblique", and specifying them doesn't seem to work either. As a result, there's a strong and rather random discrepancy between what the user selects with the MacOSX font chooser and what he gets. Is anybody working on this? Is there a bug tracking this (I didn't find it).